prep release

There are some OS like Tizne which use rpm's and build
them for armv7l architecture. In debain nomenclature
this architecture is armel, so armv7l should be
an alias to armel.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Opasiak <k.opasiak@samsung.com>

.gitattributes

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+debian/changelog merge=dpkg-mergechangelogs

.gitignore

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-alien.lsm
-alien.spec

Alien/Package.pm

@@ -331,20 +331,27 @@ package was unpacked, it is time now to wipe out the temporary directory.
 sub DESTROY {
 	my $this=shift;
 
+	my $exitcode=$?;
+
 	return if (! defined $this->unpacked_tree || $this->unpacked_tree eq '');
 	# This should never happen, but it pays to check.
 	if ($this->unpacked_tree eq '/') {
 		die "alien internal error: unpacked_tree is set to '/'. Please file a bug report!";
 	}
 
-	# Just in case some dir perms are too screwed up for rm to work and
+	if (-d $this->unpacked_tree) {
-	# we're not running as root. NB: can't use xargs
+		# Just in case some dir perms are too screwed up for
+		# rm to work and we're not running as root. NB: can't
+		# use xargs
 		$this->do('find', $this->unpacked_tree, '-type', 'd', 
 		                  '-exec', 'chmod', '755', '{}', ';');
 	
 		$this->do('rm', '-rf', $this->unpacked_tree)
 			or die "unable to delete temporary directory '".$this->unpacked_tree."': $!";
 		$this->unpacked_tree('');
+	}
+
+	$?=$exitcode;
 }
 
 =item AUTOLOAD

Alien/Package/Deb.pm

@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ sub test {
 		return map { s/\n//; $_ }
 		       grep {
 		       		! /unknown-section alien/
-		       } $this->runpipe(1, "lintian $deb");
+		       } $this->runpipe(1, "lintian '$deb'");
 	}
 	else {
 		return "lintian not available, so not testing";
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ sub getcontrolfile {
 	my $file=$this->filename;
 	
 	if ($this->have_dpkg_deb) {
-		return $this->runpipe(1, "dpkg-deb --info $file $controlfile 2>/dev/null");
+		return $this->runpipe(1, "dpkg-deb --info '$file' $controlfile 2>/dev/null");
 	}
 	else {
 		# Solaris tar doesn't support O
@@ -139,10 +139,10 @@ sub getcontrolfile {
 
 			return "(mkdir /tmp/tar_out.$$ &&".
 				" cd /tmp/tar_out.$$ &&".
-				" tar xf - ./$file &&".
+				" tar xf - './$file' &&".
-				" cat $file; cd /; rm -rf /tmp/tar_out.$$)";
+				" cat '$file'; cd /; rm -rf /tmp/tar_out.$$)";
 		}
-		my $getcontrol = "ar -p $file control.tar.gz | gzip -dc | ".tar_out($controlfile)." 2>/dev/null";
+		my $getcontrol = "ar -p '$file' control.tar.gz | gzip -dc | ".tar_out($controlfile)." 2>/dev/null";
 		return $this->runpipe(1, $getcontrol);
 	}
 }
@@ -212,11 +212,11 @@ sub scan {
 	my @filelist;
 	if ($this->have_dpkg_deb) {
 		@filelist=map { chomp; s:\./::; "/$_" }
-			  $this->runpipe(0, "dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile $file | tar tf -");
+			  $this->runpipe(0, "dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile '$file' | tar tf -");
 	}
 	else {
 		@filelist=map { chomp; s:\./::; "/$_" }
-			  $this->runpipe(0, "ar -p $file data.tar.gz | gzip -dc | tar tf -");
+			  $this->runpipe(0, "ar -p '$file' data.tar.gz | gzip -dc | tar tf -");
 	}
 	$this->filelist(\@filelist);
 
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ sub prep {
 			or die "patch error: $!";
 		# Look for .rej files.
 		die "patch failed with .rej files; giving up"
-			if $this->runpipe(1, "find $dir -name \"*.rej\"");
+			if $this->runpipe(1, "find '$dir' -name \"*.rej\"");
 		$this->do('find', '.', '-name', '*.orig', '-exec', 'rm', '{}', ';');
 		$this->do("chmod", 755, "$dir/debian/rules");
 
@@ -383,6 +383,11 @@ sub prep {
 		close OUT;
 	}
 
+	# Use debhelper v7
+	open (OUT, ">$dir/debian/compat") || die "$dir/debian/compat: $!";
+	print OUT "7\n";
+	close OUT;
+
 	# A minimal rules file.
 	open (OUT, ">$dir/debian/rules") || die "$dir/debian/rules: $!";
 	my $fixpermscomment = $this->fixperms ? "" : "#";
@@ -390,12 +395,6 @@ sub prep {
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
 # debian/rules for alien
 
-# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
-#export DH_VERBOSE=1
-
-# Use v4 compatability mode, so ldconfig gets added to maint scripts.
-export DH_COMPAT=4
-
 PACKAGE=\$(shell dh_listpackages)
 
 build:
@@ -411,7 +410,7 @@ binary-indep: build
 binary-arch: build
 	dh_testdir
 	dh_testroot
-	dh_clean -k -d
+	dh_prep
 	dh_installdirs
 
 	dh_installdocs
@@ -444,18 +443,16 @@ EOF
 	close OUT;
 	$this->do("chmod", 755, "$dir/debian/rules");
 
-	# Save any scripts.
 	if ($this->usescripts) {
 		foreach my $script (qw{postinst postrm preinst prerm}) {
-			my $data=$this->$script();
+			$this->savescript($script, $this->$script());
-			next unless defined $data;
-			next if $data =~ m/^\s*$/;
-			open (OUT,">$dir/debian/$script") ||
-				die "$dir/debian/$script: $!";
-			print OUT $data;
-			close OUT;
 		}
 	}
+	else {
+		# There may be a postinst with permissions fixups even when
+		# scripts are disabled.
+		$this->savescript("postinst", undef);
+	}
 	
 	my %dirtrans=( # Note: no trailing slashes on these directory names!
 		# Move files to FHS-compliant locations, if possible.
@@ -489,12 +486,26 @@ Build a deb.
 sub build {
 	my $this=shift;
 	
+	# Detect architecture mismatch and abort with a comprehensible
+	# error message.
+	my $arch=$this->arch;
+	if ($arch ne 'all') {
+		my $ret=system("dpkg-architecture", "-i".$arch);
+		if ($ret != 0) {
+			die $this->filename." is for architecture ".$this->arch." ; the package cannot be built on this system"."\n";
+		}
+	}
+
 	chdir $this->unpacked_tree;
 	my $log=$this->runpipe(1, "debian/rules binary 2>&1");
-	if ($?) {
+	chdir "..";
+	my $err=$?;
+	if ($err) {
+		if (! defined $log) {
+			die "Package build failed; could not run generated debian/rules file.\n";
+		}
 		die "Package build failed. Here's the log:\n", $log;
 	}
-	chdir "..";
 
 	return $this->name."_".$this->version."-".$this->release."_".$this->arch.".deb";
 }
@@ -583,12 +594,13 @@ sub version {
 	# get
 	return unless defined wantarray; # optimization
 	$_=$this->{version};
-	# Make sure the version contains digets.
+	# Make sure the version contains a digit at the start, as required
-	unless (/[0-9]/) {
+	# by dpkg-deb.
-		# Drat. Well, add some. dpkg-deb won't work
+	unless (/^[0-9]/) {
-		# on a version w/o numbers!
+		$_="0".$_;
-		return $_."0";
 	}
+	# filter out some characters not allowed in debian versions
+	s/[^-.+~:A-Za-z0-9]//g; # see lib/dpkg/parsehelp.c parseversion
 	return $_;
 }
 
@@ -714,29 +726,49 @@ sub username {
 	return $username;
 }
 
-=item postinst
+=item savescript
 
-Returns the postinst. This may include generated shell code to set owners
+Saves script to debian directory.
-and groups from the owninfo field, and update modes from the modeinfo field.
 
 =cut
 
-sub postinst {
+sub savescript {
 	my $this=shift;
+	my $script=shift;
+	my $data=shift;
 
-	if (@_) {
+	if ($script eq 'postinst') {
-		$this->{postinst}=shift;
+		$data=$this->gen_postinst($data);
 	}
 
+	my $dir=$this->unpacked_tree;
+
+	return unless defined $data;
+	next if $data =~ m/^\s*$/;
+	open (OUT,">$dir/debian/$script") ||
+		die "$dir/debian/$script: $!";
+	print OUT $data;
+	close OUT;
+}
+
+=item gen_postinst
+
+Modifies or creates a postinst. This may include generated shell code to set
+owners and groups from the owninfo field, and update modes from the modeinfo
+field.
+
+=cut
+
+sub gen_postinst {
+	my $this=shift;
+	my $postinst=shift;
+
 	my $owninfo = $this->owninfo;
 	my $modeinfo = $this->modeinfo;
-	my $postinst = $this->{postinst};
+	return $postinst unless ref $owninfo && %$owninfo;
-	return $postinst unless ref $owninfo;
 
 	# If there is no postinst, let's make one up..
-	$postinst="#!/bin/sh\n" unless length $postinst;
+	$postinst="#!/bin/sh\n" unless defined $postinst && length $postinst;
-	
-	return $postinst unless %$owninfo;
 	
 	my ($firstline, $rest)=split(/\n/, $postinst, 2);
 	if ($firstline !~ m/^#!\s*\/bin\/(ba)?sh/) {

Alien/Package/Lsb.pm

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ sub checkfile {
 	my $this=shift;
 	my $file=shift;
 	return unless $file =~ m/^lsb-.*\.rpm$/;
-	my @deps=$this->runpipe(1, "LANG=C rpm -qp -R $file");
+	my @deps=$this->runpipe(1, "LANG=C rpm -qp -R '$file'");
 	return 1 if grep { s/\s+//g; $_ eq 'lsb' } @deps;
 	return;
 }
@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ sub revert {
 
 =item build
 
-Uses the parent's build method. If a lsb-rpm is available, uses it to build
+Uses the parent's build method. If a lsb-rpmbuild is available, uses it to
-the package.
+build the package.
 
 =cut
 
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ sub build {
 	my $this=shift;
 	my $buildcmd=shift || 'rpmbuild';
 	foreach (split(/:/,$ENV{PATH})) {
-		if (-x "$_/lsb-rpm") {
+		if (-x "$_/lsb-rpmbuild") {
-			$buildcmd='lsb-rpm';
+			$buildcmd='lsb-rpmbuild';
 			last;
 		}
 	}

Alien/Package/Rpm.pm

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ sub scan {
 	foreach my $field (qw{NAME VERSION RELEASE ARCH CHANGELOGTEXT
 		              SUMMARY DESCRIPTION PREFIXES},
 	                   keys(%fieldtrans)) {
-		my $value=$this->runpipe(0, "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat \%{$field} $file");
+		my $value=$this->runpipe(0, "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat \%{$field} '$file'");
 		next if $? || $value eq '(none)';
 		my $key;
 		if (exists $fieldtrans{$field}) {
@@ -96,16 +96,16 @@ sub scan {
 	}
 
 	# Get the conffiles list.
-	$this->conffiles([map { chomp; $_ } $this->runpipe(0, "LANG=C rpm -qcp $file")]);
+	$this->conffiles([map { chomp; $_ } $this->runpipe(0, "LANG=C rpm -qcp '$file'")]);
 	if (defined $this->conffiles->[0] &&
 	    $this->conffiles->[0] eq '(contains no files)') {
 		$this->conffiles([]);
 	}
 
-	$this->binary_info(scalar $this->runpipe(0, "rpm -qpi $file"));
+	$this->binary_info(scalar $this->runpipe(0, "rpm -qpi '$file'"));
 
 	# Get the filelist.
-	$this->filelist([map { chomp; $_ } $this->runpipe(0, "LANG=C rpm -qpl $file")]);
+	$this->filelist([map { chomp; $_ } $this->runpipe(0, "LANG=C rpm -qpl '$file'")]);
 	if (defined $this->filelist->[0] &&
 	    $this->filelist->[0] eq '(contains no files)') {
 		$this->filelist([]);
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ sub scan {
 	}
 	unless (defined $this->copyright) {
 		# Older rpms have no licence tag, but have a copyright.
-		$this->copyright($this->runpipe(0, "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat \%{COPYRIGHT} $file"));
+		$this->copyright($this->runpipe(0, "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat \%{COPYRIGHT} '$file'"));
 
 		# Fallback.
 		if (! $this->copyright) {
@@ -159,7 +159,13 @@ sub unpack {
 	$this->SUPER::unpack(@_);
 	my $workdir=$this->unpacked_tree;
 	
-	$this->do("rpm2cpio ".$this->filename." | (cd $workdir; cpio --extract --make-directories --no-absolute-filenames --preserve-modification-time) 2>&1")
+	# Check if we need to use lzma to uncompress the cpio archive
+	my $decomp='';
+	if ($this->do("rpm2cpio '".$this->filename."' | lzma -t -q > /dev/null 2>&1")) {
+		$decomp = 'lzma -d -q |';
+	}
+
+	$this->do("rpm2cpio '".$this->filename."' | (cd $workdir; $decomp cpio --extract --make-directories --no-absolute-filenames --preserve-modification-time) 2>&1")
 		or die "Unpacking of '".$this->filename."' failed";
 	
 	# cpio does not necessarily store all parent directories in an
@@ -168,7 +174,7 @@ sub unpack {
 	# Find those directories and make them mode 755, which is more
 	# reasonable.
 	my %seenfiles;
-	open (RPMLIST, "rpm2cpio ".$this->filename." | cpio -it --quiet |")
+	open (RPMLIST, "rpm2cpio '".$this->filename."' | $decomp cpio -it --quiet |")
 		or die "File list of '".$this->filename."' failed";
 	while (<RPMLIST>) {
 		chomp;
@@ -178,7 +184,7 @@ sub unpack {
 	foreach my $file (`cd $workdir; find ./`) {
 		chomp $file;
 		if (! $seenfiles{$file} && -d "$workdir/$file" && ! -l "$workdir/$file") {
-			$this->do("chmod 755 $workdir/$file");
+			$this->do("chmod 755 '$workdir/$file'");
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -242,7 +248,7 @@ sub unpack {
 	# postinst.
 	my %owninfo = ();
 	my %modeinfo = ();
-	open (GETPERMS, 'rpm --queryformat \'[%{FILEMODES} %{FILEUSERNAME} %{FILEGROUPNAME} %{FILENAMES}\n]\' -qp '.$this->filename.' |');
+	open (GETPERMS, 'rpm --queryformat \'[%{FILEMODES} %{FILEUSERNAME} %{FILEGROUPNAME} %{FILENAMES}\n]\' -qp \''.$this->filename.'\' |');
 	while (<GETPERMS>) {
 		chomp;
 		my ($mode, $owner, $group, $file) = split(/ /, $_, 4);
@@ -265,9 +271,13 @@ sub unpack {
 			}
 			$gid=0;
 		}
-		if (defined($owninfo{$file}) && ($mode & 07000 > 0)) {
+		if (defined($owninfo{$file}) && (($mode & 07000) > 0)) {
 			$modeinfo{$file} = sprintf "%lo", $mode;
 		}
+		# Note that ghost files exist in the metadata but not
+                # in the cpio archive, so check that the file exists
+		# before trying to access it
+		if (-e "$workdir/$file") {
 			if ($> == 0) {
 				$this->do("chown", "$uid:$gid", "$workdir/$file") 
 					|| die "failed chowning $file to $uid\:$gid\: $!";
@@ -275,6 +285,7 @@ sub unpack {
 			$this->do("chmod", sprintf("%lo", $mode), "$workdir/$file") 
 				|| die "failed changing mode of $file to $mode\: $!";
 		}
+	}
 	$this->owninfo(\%owninfo);
 	$this->modeinfo(\%modeinfo);
 
@@ -413,7 +424,7 @@ sub build {
 		$opts="--buildarch ".$this->arch;
 	}
 	else {
-		# Presumably we're delaing with rpm 3.0 or above, which
+		# Presumably we're dealing with rpm 3.0 or above, which
 		# doesn't output rpmdir in any format I'd care to try to
 		# parse. Instead, rpm is now of a late enough version to
 		# notice the %define's in the spec file, that will make the
@@ -428,7 +439,7 @@ sub build {
 	$opts.=" $ENV{RPMBUILDOPT}" if exists $ENV{RPMBUILDOPT};
 	my $pwd=`pwd`;
 	chomp $pwd;
-	my $command="cd $dir; $buildcmd --buildroot=$pwd/$dir -bb $opts ".$this->name."-".$this->version."-".$this->release.".spec";
+	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;
@@ -596,9 +607,16 @@ sub arch {
 			# Treat armv4l as arm.
 			$arch='arm';
 		}
+		elsif ($arch eq 'armv7l') {
+			# Treat armv7l as armel.
+			$arch='armel';
+		}
 		elsif ($arch eq 'parisc') {
 			$arch='hppa';
 		}
+		elsif ($arch eq 'ppc64le') {
+			$arch='ppc64el';
+		}
 		
 		$this->{arch}=$arch;
 	}
@@ -618,6 +636,9 @@ sub arch {
 	elsif ($arch eq 'all') {
 		$arch='noarch';
 	}
+	elsif ($arch eq 'ppc64el') {
+		$arch='ppc64le';
+	}
 
 	return $arch
 }

Alien/Package/Slp.pm

@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ sub scan {
 	# Read in the file list.
 	my @filelist;
 	# FIXME: support gzip files too!
-	foreach ($this->runpipe(0, "bzip2 -d < $file | tar -tf -")) {
+	foreach ($this->runpipe(0, "bzip2 -d < '$file' | tar -tf -")) {
 		chomp;
 		s:^\./:/:;
 		$_="/$_" unless m:^/:;
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ sub scan {
 	$this->distribution('Stampede');
 	$this->origformat('slp');
 	$this->changelogtext('');
-	$this->binary_info($this->runpipe(0, "ls -l $file"));
+	$this->binary_info($this->runpipe(0, "ls -l '$file'"));
 	
 	return 1;
 }

Alien/Package/Tgz.pm

@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ sub scan {
 	$this->group("unknown");
 	$this->origformat('tgz');
 	$this->changelogtext('');
-	$this->binary_info($this->runpipe(0, "ls -l $file"));
+	$this->binary_info($this->runpipe(0, "ls -l '$file'"));
 
 	# Now figure out the conffiles. Assume anything in etc/ is a
 	# conffile.
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ sub scan {
 
 	# Now get the scripts.
 	foreach my $script (keys %{scripttrans()}) {
-		$this->$script(scalar $this->runpipe(1, "tar Oxf $file install/${scripttrans()}{$script} 2>/dev/null"));
+		$this->$script(scalar $this->runpipe(1, "tar Oxf '$file' install/${scripttrans()}{$script} 2>/dev/null"));
 	}
 
 	return 1;

alien.lsm

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Begin3
+Title:		alien
+Version:	8.90
+Entered-date:	31MAR97
+Description:	Alien converts Slackware .tgz packages, Red Hat .rpm packages,
+                Debian .deb packages, and Stampede .slp packages. It can 
+                convert from any of the formats to any other format. It works
+                only on binary packages. It also support LSB packages.
+Keywords:	debian dpkg deb red hat redhat rpm slackware tgz stampede slp convert package LSB
+Author:		joey@kitenet.net
+Primary-site:	sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/utils/package
+		80	alien-8.90.tar.gz
+Copying-policy:	GPL
+End

alien.pl

@@ -193,6 +193,10 @@ some things to mess with their permissions and owners to the degree this does,
 so it defaults to off. This can only be used when converting to debian
 packages.
 
+=item B<--target=>I<architecture>
+
+Force the architecture of the generated package to the given string.
+
 =item B<-v>, B<--verbose>
 
 Be verbose: Display each command B<alien> runs in the process of converting a
@@ -246,7 +250,7 @@ B<alien> recognizes the following environment variables:
 
 =over 4
 
-=item RPMBUILDOPTS
+=item RPMBUILDOPT
 
 Options to pass to rpm when it is building a package.
 
@@ -330,6 +334,7 @@ Usage: alien [options] file [...]
   -i, --install             Install generated package.
   -g, --generate            Generate build tree, but do not build package.
   -c, --scripts             Include scripts in package.
+      --target=<arch>       Set architecture of the generated package.
   -v, --verbose             Display each command alien runs.
       --veryverbose         Be verbose, and also display output of run commands.
   -k, --keep-version        Do not change version of generated package.
@@ -344,7 +349,7 @@ EOF
 # Start by processing the parameters.
 my (%destformats, $generate, $install, $single, $scripts, $patchfile,
     $nopatch, $tgzdescription, $tgzversion, $keepversion, $fixperms,
-    $test, $anypatch);
+    $test, $anypatch, $target);
 my $versionbump=1;
 
 # Bundling is nice anyway, and it is required or Getopt::Long will confuse
@@ -366,6 +371,7 @@ GetOptions(
 	"patch=s"        => \$patchfile,
 	"nopatch"        => \$nopatch,
 	"anypatch"       => \$anypatch,
+	"target=s"       => \$target,
 	"description=s"  => \$tgzdescription,
 	"V"              => \&version,
         "version:s"      => sub { length $_[1] ? $tgzversion=$_[1] : version() },
@@ -446,6 +452,10 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
 		die "Unknown type of package, $file.\n";
 	}
 
+	if ($target) {
+		$package->arch($target);
+	}
+
 	if (! $package->usescripts && $package->scripts) {
 		$package->usescripts($scripts);
 		if (! $scripts) {

alien.spec

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+Summary: Install Debian, Slackware, and Stampede packages with rpm.
+Name: alien
+Packager: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
+Version: 8.90
+Release: 1
+Source: ftp://kitenet.net/pub/code/debian/alien_8.90.tar.gz
+License: GPL
+Group: Utilities/File
+Buildroot: /tmp/alien-8.90.build
+Requires: perl
+BuildArchitectures: noarch
+
+%description
+Alien allows you to convert Debian, Slackware, and Stampede Packages into Red
+Hat packages, which can be installed with rpm.
+
+It can also generate Slackware, Debian and Stampede packages.
+
+This is a tool only suitable for binary packages.
+
+%prep
+%setup -n alien
+rm -rf /tmp/alien-8.90.build
+
+%install
+perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr
+make
+make pure_install VARPREFIX=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -not -type d -printf "/%%P\n" | \
+	sed '/\/man\//s/$/\*/' > manifest
+
+%files -f manifest
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%doc debian/changelog GPL README alien.lsm

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,92 @@
+alien (8.90) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Add --target=<arch> option for setting architecture. Closes: #260948
+    (Thanks, Teemu Ikonen)
+  * Add conversion from ppc64le (rpm) to ppc64el (deb).
+  * debhelper v9
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:59:07 -0400
+
+alien (8.89) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Correct man page to say RPMBUILDOPT (not RPMBUILDOPTS). Closes: #701106
+  * Handle whitespace in path to RPMs. Closes: #719776
+    (Thanks, Christopher Huhn)
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:53:44 -0400
+
+alien (8.88) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Ensure that version numbers begin with well, a number, when building a
+    deb, otherwise dpkg-deb will refuse to build it.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:44:49 -0400
+
+alien (8.87) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Use lsb-rpmbuild, not lsb-rpm. Closes: #667044
+  * Fix adding of postinst script to deb, containing rpm permissions
+    fixups code. Closes: #667651
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:53:29 -0400
+
+alien (8.86) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Filter out illegal characters in version number when building a deb.
+    Closes: #648531
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:12:35 -0400
+
+alien (8.85) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Avoid breaking on spaces in filenames. Closes: #618636
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:43:49 -0400
+
+alien (8.84) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Silence error message when deleting build tree after making an rpm,
+    if rpmbuild has already deleted it. Closes: #622846
+  * Squash an uninitialized value when creating a deb.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:13:20 -0400
+
+alien (8.83) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Correct handling of arch all packages in deb arch check. Closes: #596209
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:24:58 -0400
+
+alien (8.82) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Use debhelper compat level v7 when building packages. All changes
+    since v4 seem safe for alien's generated rules files.
+  * Use dh_prep instead of deprecated dh_clean -k.
+  * Print a nice error message when attempting to build a deb from a package
+    of an unsupported architecture. Closes: #592625
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:04:24 -0400
+
+alien (8.81) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Avoid uninitialized value warning when debian/rules fails to run
+    due to alien being run in a noexec directory. Closes: #579216
+  * Prevent DESTROY stomping on alien's exit code sometimes.
+  * Support extracting lzma compressed RPMs. 
+    (Patch by unnamed person on some bug tracking system I don't frequent.)
+  * Suggest lzma. If not installed, alien will still fail to decompress
+    RPMs using it, but will support most rpms, which are not.
+  * Fix precedence problem that prevented alien from preserving permissions
+    of suid/sgid binaries that are not owned by root.
+    (Patch by Duane Waddle, on a bug tracking system I don't frequent, that
+    was about the "expire" it 4 days from now. We got lucky Duane, but please
+    use the Debian BTS next time!)
+  * Support RPMs containing ghost files.
+    (Patch by Ben Webb, who would get his patches applied quicker if he
+    actually communicated them to the program's author.)
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 17 May 2010 20:56:59 -0400
+
 alien (8.80) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Support querying rpm LICENSE field. (Alexey Khoroshilov)

debian/compat

@@ -1 +1 @@
-7
+9

debian/control

@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 Source: alien
 Section: admin
 Priority: optional
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9)
 Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
-Standards-Version: 3.8.3
+Standards-Version: 3.9.5
 Vcs-Git: git://git.kitenet.net/alien
 Homepage: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/
 
 Package: alien
 Architecture: all
 Section: admin
-Depends: debhelper (>= 3), ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio, rpm2cpio
+Depends: debhelper (>= 7), ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio, rpm2cpio
-Suggests: patch, bzip2, lsb-rpm, lintian
+Suggests: patch, bzip2, lsb-rpm, lintian, lzma
 Description: convert and install rpm and other packages
  Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages
  into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg.

debian/copyright

@@ -1,35 +1,13 @@
-This is a program originally written by Christoph Lameter
+Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
-<clameter@debian.org>.
+Source: native package
 
-Deb to rpm conversion code was taken from the Martian program by
+Files: *
-Randolph Chung <randolph@tausq.org>.
+Copyright:
-
+ 1996, 1997 Christoph Lameter
-The Solaris pkg code was written by Mark A. Hershberger
+ 1997 Randolph Chung
-<mah@everybody.org>.
+ 2001 Mark A. Hershberger
-
+ 1997-2011 Joey Hess
-This program is now maintained by Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>.
+License: GPL-2+
-
+ On Debian systems, the complete text of the GPL can be found in
-Copyright 1996, 1997 Christoph Lameter
+ /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
-Portions copyright 1997 Randolph Chung
-Portions copyright 2001 Mark A. Hershberger
-Copyright 1997-2007 Joey Hess
-
-License:
-
-    alien is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-    (at your option) any later version.
-
-    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-    GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA
-
-On Debian systems, the complete text of the GPL can be found in
-/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.