releasing version 8.83

* 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.

.gitattributes

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

Alien/Package/Deb.pm

@@ -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
@@ -489,6 +488,16 @@ 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");
 	chdir "..";

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+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

debian/control

@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ Section: admin
 Priority: optional
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50)
 Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
-Standards-Version: 3.8.4
+Standards-Version: 3.9.1
 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, lzma
 Description: convert and install rpm and other packages
  Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages