releasing version 8.78

Recent versions of rpm (such as 4.7.0) ignore the buildroot setting in
the spec file.  Use the --buildroot option to ensure the correct
buildroot is used.

Alien/Package/Deb.pm

@@ -317,6 +317,7 @@ sub prep {
 		my $line=<$changelog>;
 		if ($line=~/^[^ ]+\s+\(([^)]+)\)\s/) {
 			my $version=$1;
+			$version=~s/\s+//; # ensure no whitespace
 			if ($version=~/(.*)-(.*)/) {
 				$version=$1;
 				$this->release($2);

Alien/Package/Rpm.pm

@@ -239,6 +239,9 @@ sub unpack {
 	while (<GETPERMS>) {
 		chomp;
 		my ($mode, $owner, $group, $file) = split(/ /, $_, 4);
+
+		next if -l "$workdir/$file";
+
 		$mode = $mode & 07777; # remove filetype
 		my $uid = getpwnam($owner);
 		if (! defined $uid || $uid != 0) {
@@ -258,12 +261,10 @@ sub unpack {
 		if (defined($owninfo{$file}) && ($mode & 07000 > 0)) {
 			$modeinfo{$file} = sprintf "%lo", $mode;
 		}
-		next unless -e "$workdir/$file"; # skip broken links
 		if ($> == 0) {
 			$this->do("chown", "$uid:$gid", "$workdir/$file") 
 				|| die "failed chowning $file to $uid\:$gid\: $!";
 		}
-		next if -l "$workdir/$file"; # skip links
 		$this->do("chmod", sprintf("%lo", $mode), "$workdir/$file") 
 			|| die "failed changing mode of $file to $mode\: $!";
 	}
@@ -418,7 +419,9 @@ sub build {
 	}
 
 	$opts.=" $ENV{RPMBUILDOPT}" if exists $ENV{RPMBUILDOPT};
-	my $command="cd $dir; $buildcmd -bb $opts ".$this->name."-".$this->version."-".$this->release.".spec";
+	my $pwd=`pwd`;
+	chomp $pwd;
+	my $command="cd $dir; $buildcmd --buildroot=$pwd/$dir -bb $opts ".$this->name."-".$this->version."-".$this->release.".spec";
 	my $log=$this->runpipe(1, "$command 2>&1");
 	if ($?) {
 		die "Package build failed. Here's the log of the command ($command):\n", $log;

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+alien (8.78) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add support for rpm 4.7.0, which ignores the buildroot setting in the
+    spec file, by passing --buildroot. (Thanks, Pavel Roskin)
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:53:05 -0400
+
+alien (8.77) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Don't allow whitespace in package version when parsing debian/changelog.
+  * In rpm permission fixup code, avoid processing symlinks since that
+    would result in the file the link points to being "fixed". Closes: #535586
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:37:01 -0400
+
 alien (8.76) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Avoid using hostname -f for portability to unix systems,