Prepare new upload.

When dh_usrlocal returns nonzero, continue and print a warning
information. This allows the generated deb package to install
files under /usr/local/.

.gitignore

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

Alien/Package.pm

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ The package's maintainer.
 
 =item depends
 
-The package's dependancies. Only dependencies that should exist on all
+The package's dependencies. Only dependencies that should exist on all
 target distributions can be put in here though (ie: lsb).
 
 =item group
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ sub install {
 =item test
 
 Test a package file. The filename is passed, should return an array of lines
-of test results. Child classses may implement this.
+of test results. Child classes may implement this.
 
 =cut
 
@@ -339,14 +339,17 @@ sub DESTROY {
 		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
-	# we're not running as root. NB: can't use xargs
-	$this->do('find', $this->unpacked_tree, '-type', 'd', 
-	                  '-exec', 'chmod', '755', '{}', ';');
+	if (-d $this->unpacked_tree) {
+		# 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('');
+		$this->do('rm', '-rf', $this->unpacked_tree)
+			or die "unable to delete temporary directory '".$this->unpacked_tree."': $!";
+		$this->unpacked_tree('');
+	}
 
 	$?=$exitcode;
 }

Alien/Package/Deb.pm

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Alien::Package::Deb - an object that represents a deb package
 package Alien::Package::Deb;
 use strict;
 use base qw(Alien::Package);
+use List::Util qw(first);
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -23,6 +24,10 @@ Alien::Package.
 
 Set to a true value if dpkg-deb is available. 
 
+=item deb_member_list
+
+Set to the list of member names in the deb package.
+
 =item dirtrans
 
 After the build stage, set to a hash reference of the directories we moved
@@ -66,7 +71,7 @@ sub init {
 
 =item checkfile
 
-Detect deb files by their extention.
+Detect deb files by their extension.
 
 =cut
 
@@ -110,13 +115,33 @@ 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";
 	}
 }
 
+=item get_deb_member_list
+
+Helper method. Pass it the name of the deb and it will return the list of
+ar members.
+
+=cut
+
+sub get_deb_member_list {
+	my $this=shift;
+	my $file=$this->filename;
+	my $members=$this->deb_member_list;
+
+	unless (defined $members) {
+		$members = [ map { chomp; $_ } $this->runpipe(1, "ar -t '$file'") ];
+		$this->deb_member_list($members);
+	}
+
+	return @{$members};
+}
+
 =item getcontrolfile
 
 Helper method. Pass it the name of a control file, and it will pull it out
@@ -130,7 +155,7 @@ 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
@@ -139,14 +164,61 @@ sub getcontrolfile {
 
 			return "(mkdir /tmp/tar_out.$$ &&".
 				" cd /tmp/tar_out.$$ &&".
-				" tar xf - ./$file &&".
-				" cat $file; cd /; rm -rf /tmp/tar_out.$$)";
+				" tar xf - './$file' &&".
+				" cat '$file'; cd /; rm -rf /tmp/tar_out.$$)";
 		}
-		my $getcontrol = "ar -p $file control.tar.gz | gzip -dc | ".tar_out($controlfile)." 2>/dev/null";
+		my $controlcomp;
+		my $controlmember = first { /^control\.tar/ }
+				    $this->get_deb_member_list;
+		if (! defined $controlmember) {
+			die 'Cannot find control member!';
+		} elsif ($controlmember eq 'control.tar.gz') {
+			$controlcomp = 'gzip -dc';
+		} elsif ($controlmember eq 'control.tar.xz') {
+			$controlcomp = 'xz -dc';
+		} elsif ($controlmember eq 'control.tar') {
+			$controlcomp = 'cat';
+		} else {
+			die 'Unknown control member!';
+		}
+		my $getcontrol = "ar -p '$file' $controlmember | $controlcomp | ".tar_out($controlfile)." 2>/dev/null";
 		return $this->runpipe(1, $getcontrol);
 	}
 }
 
+=item get_datamember_cmd
+
+Helper method. Pass it the name of the deb and it will return the raw
+command needed to extract the data.tar member.
+
+=cut
+
+sub get_datamember_cmd {
+	my $this=shift;
+	my $file=$this->filename;
+
+	my $datacomp;
+	my $datamember = first { /^data\.tar/ }
+			 $this->get_deb_member_list;
+	if (! defined $datamember) {
+		die 'Cannot find data member!';
+	} elsif ($datamember eq 'data.tar.gz') {
+		$datacomp = 'gzip -dc';
+	} elsif ($datamember eq 'data.tar.bz2') {
+		$datacomp = 'bzip2 -dc';
+	} elsif ($datamember eq 'data.tar.xz') {
+		$datacomp = 'xz -dc';
+	} elsif ($datamember eq 'data.tar.lzma') {
+		$datacomp = 'xz -dc';
+	} elsif ($datamember eq 'data.tar') {
+		$datacomp = 'cat';
+	} else {
+		die 'Unknown data member!';
+	}
+
+	return "ar -p '$file' $datamember | $datacomp";
+}
+
 =item scan
 
 Implement the scan method to read a deb file.
@@ -209,15 +281,15 @@ sub scan {
 
 	# Read in the list of all files.
 	# Note that tar doesn't supply a leading '/', so we have to add that.
-	my @filelist;
+	my $datamember_cmd;
 	if ($this->have_dpkg_deb) {
-		@filelist=map { chomp; s:\./::; "/$_" }
-			  $this->runpipe(0, "dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile $file | tar tf -");
+		$datamember_cmd = "dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile '$file'";
 	}
 	else {
-		@filelist=map { chomp; s:\./::; "/$_" }
-			  $this->runpipe(0, "ar -p $file data.tar.gz | gzip -dc | tar tf -");
+		$datamember_cmd = $this->get_datamember_cmd($file);
 	}
+	my @filelist=map { chomp; s:\./::; "/$_" }
+		     $this->runpipe(0, "$datamember_cmd | tar tf -");
 	$this->filelist(\@filelist);
 
 	# Read in the scripts, if any.
@@ -244,7 +316,9 @@ sub unpack {
 			or die "Unpacking of '$file' failed: $!";
 	}
 	else {
-		$this->do("ar -p $file data.tar.gz | gzip -dc | (cd ".$this->unpacked_tree."; tar xpf -)")
+		my $datamember_cmd = $this->get_datamember_cmd($file);
+
+		$this->do("$datamember_cmd | (cd ".$this->unpacked_tree."; tar xpf -)")
 			or die "Unpacking of '$file' failed: $!";
 	}
 
@@ -307,7 +381,7 @@ 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 +457,11 @@ sub prep {
 		close OUT;
 	}
 
+	# Use debhelper v7
+	open (OUT, ">$dir/debian/compat") || die "$dir/debian/compat: $!";
+	print OUT "10\n";
+	close OUT;
+
 	# A minimal rules file.
 	open (OUT, ">$dir/debian/rules") || die "$dir/debian/rules: $!";
 	my $fixpermscomment = $this->fixperms ? "" : "#";
@@ -390,71 +469,55 @@ 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:
-	dh_testdir
+%:
+	dh \$\@
 
-clean:
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
+override_dh_clean:
 	dh_clean -d
 
-binary-indep: build
+override_dh_auto_configure:
 
-binary-arch: build
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	dh_clean -k -d
-	dh_installdirs
+override_dh_auto_build:
 
-	dh_installdocs
-	dh_installchangelogs
-
-# Copy the packages's files.
+override_dh_auto_install:
+	mkdir -p debian/\$(PACKAGE)
+	# Copy the packages's files.
 	find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian -print0 | \\
-		xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {} debian/\$(PACKAGE)
-
+		sed -e s#'./'##g | \\
+		xargs -0 -r -i cp -a ./{} debian/\$(PACKAGE)/{}
 #
 # If you need to move files around in debian/\$(PACKAGE) or do some
 # binary patching, do it here
 #
 
-
+override_dh_strip:
 # This has been known to break on some wacky binaries.
-#	dh_strip
-	dh_compress
-$fixpermscomment	dh_fixperms
-	dh_makeshlibs
-	dh_installdeb
-	-dh_shlibdeps
-	dh_gencontrol
-	dh_md5sums
-	dh_builddeb
+	#	dh_strip
+
+override_dh_usrlocal:
+	-dh_usrlocal || printf "Your package seems to be installing files into /usr/local/, which could be buggy. Will continue anyway.\\n"
+
+override_dh_fixperms:
+$fixpermscomment	dh_fixperms
+
+override_dh_shlibdeps:
+	-dh_shlibdeps
 
-binary: binary-indep binary-arch
-.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary
 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();
-			next unless defined $data;
-			next if $data =~ m/^\s*$/;
-			open (OUT,">$dir/debian/$script") ||
-				die "$dir/debian/$script: $!";
-			print OUT $data;
-			close OUT;
-		}	
+			$this->savescript($script, $this->$script());
+		}
+	}
+	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!
@@ -488,6 +551,16 @@ 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");
@@ -533,7 +606,7 @@ sub cleantree {
 
 Set/get package name. 
 
-Always returns the packge name in lowercase with all invalid characters
+Always returns the package name in lowercase with all invalid characters
 rmoved. The name is however, stored unchanged.
 
 =cut
@@ -587,12 +660,13 @@ sub version {
 	# get
 	return unless defined wantarray; # optimization
 	$_=$this->{version};
-	# Make sure the version contains digets.
-	unless (/[0-9]/) {
-		# Drat. Well, add some. dpkg-deb won't work
-		# on a version w/o numbers!
-		return $_."0";
+	# Make sure the version contains a digit at the start, as required
+	# by dpkg-deb.
+	unless (/^[0-9]/) {
+		$_="0".$_;
 	}
+	# filter out some characters not allowed in debian versions
+	s/[^-.+~:A-Za-z0-9]//g; # see lib/dpkg/parsehelp.c parseversion
 	return $_;
 }
 
@@ -718,29 +792,49 @@ sub username {
 	return $username;
 }
 
-=item postinst
+=item savescript
 
-Returns the postinst. This may include generated shell code to set owners
-and groups from the owninfo field, and update modes from the modeinfo field.
+Saves script to debian directory.
 
 =cut
 
-sub postinst {
+sub savescript {
 	my $this=shift;
+	my $script=shift;
+	my $data=shift;
 
-	if (@_) {
-		$this->{postinst}=shift;
+	if ($script eq 'postinst') {
+		$data=$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;
+	return $postinst unless ref $owninfo && %$owninfo;
 
 	# If there is no postinst, let's make one up..
-	$postinst="#!/bin/sh\n" unless length $postinst;
-	
-	return $postinst unless %$owninfo;
+	$postinst="#!/bin/sh\n" unless defined $postinst && length $postinst;
 	
 	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
-the package.
+Uses the parent's build method. If a lsb-rpmbuild is available, uses it to
+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") {
-			$buildcmd='lsb-rpm';
+		if (-x "$_/lsb-rpmbuild") {
+			$buildcmd='lsb-rpmbuild';
 			last;
 		}
 	}

Alien/Package/Rpm.pm

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Relocatable rpm packages have a prefixes field.
 
 =item checkfile
 
-Detect rpm files by their extention.
+Detect rpm files by their extension.
 
 =cut
 
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ sub checkfile {
 
 =item install
 
-Install a rpm. If RPMINSTALLOPT is set in the environement, the options in
+Install a rpm. If RPMINSTALLOPT is set in the environment, the options in
 it are passed to rpm on its command line.
 
 =cut
@@ -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) {
@@ -161,11 +161,11 @@ sub unpack {
 	
 	# Check if we need to use lzma to uncompress the cpio archive
 	my $decomp='';
-	if ($this->do("rpm2cpio ".$this->filename." | lzma -t -q > /dev/null 2>&1")) {
+	if ($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")
+	$this->do("rpm2cpio '".$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
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ sub unpack {
 	# Find those directories and make them mode 755, which is more
 	# reasonable.
 	my %seenfiles;
-	open (RPMLIST, "rpm2cpio ".$this->filename." | $decomp cpio -it --quiet |")
+	open (RPMLIST, "rpm2cpio '".$this->filename."' | $decomp cpio -it --quiet |")
 		or die "File list of '".$this->filename."' failed";
 	while (<RPMLIST>) {
 		chomp;
@@ -184,7 +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'");
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -248,7 +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);
@@ -302,26 +302,159 @@ sub prep {
 	my $this=shift;
 	my $dir=$this->unpacked_tree || die "The package must be unpacked first!";
 
+	# Exclude standard system directories
+	# This list is adapted from the rpmlint source code
+	my @standard_dirs = (
+		"/",
+		"/bin/",
+		"/boot/",
+		"/etc/",
+		"/etc/X11/",
+		"/etc/opt/",
+		"/etc/profile.d/",
+		"/etc/skel/",
+		"/etc/xinetd.d/",
+		"/home/",
+		"/lib/",
+		"/lib/modules/",
+		"/lib64/",
+		"/media/",
+		"/mnt/",
+		"/mnt/cdrom/",
+		"/mnt/disk/",
+		"/mnt/floppy/",
+		"/opt/",
+		"/proc/",
+		"/root/",
+		"/run/",
+		"/sbin/",
+		"/selinux/",
+		"/srv/",
+		"/sys/",
+		"/tmp/",
+		"/usr/",
+		"/usr/X11R6/",
+		"/usr/X11R6/bin/",
+		"/usr/X11R6/doc/",
+		"/usr/X11R6/include/",
+		"/usr/X11R6/lib/",
+		"/usr/X11R6/lib64/",
+		"/usr/X11R6/man/",
+		"/usr/X11R6/man/man1/",
+		"/usr/X11R6/man/man2/",
+		"/usr/X11R6/man/man3/",
+		"/usr/X11R6/man/man4/",
+		"/usr/X11R6/man/man5/",
+		"/usr/X11R6/man/man6/",
+		"/usr/X11R6/man/man7/",
+		"/usr/X11R6/man/man8/",
+		"/usr/X11R6/man/man9/",
+		"/usr/X11R6/man/mann/",
+		"/usr/bin/",
+		"/usr/bin/X11/",
+		"/usr/etc/",
+		"/usr/games/",
+		"/usr/include/",
+		"/usr/lib/",
+		"/usr/lib/X11/",
+		"/usr/lib/games/",
+		"/usr/lib/gcc-lib/",
+		"/usr/lib/menu/",
+		"/usr/lib64/",
+		"/usr/lib64/gcc-lib/",
+		"/usr/local/",
+		"/usr/local/bin/",
+		"/usr/local/doc/",
+		"/usr/local/etc/",
+		"/usr/local/games/",
+		"/usr/local/info/",
+		"/usr/local/lib/",
+		"/usr/local/lib64/",
+		"/usr/local/man/",
+		"/usr/local/man/man1/",
+		"/usr/local/man/man2/",
+		"/usr/local/man/man3/",
+		"/usr/local/man/man4/",
+		"/usr/local/man/man5/",
+		"/usr/local/man/man6/",
+		"/usr/local/man/man7/",
+		"/usr/local/man/man8/",
+		"/usr/local/man/man9/",
+		"/usr/local/man/mann/",
+		"/usr/local/sbin/",
+		"/usr/local/share/",
+		"/usr/local/share/man/",
+		"/usr/local/share/man/man1/",
+		"/usr/local/share/man/man2/",
+		"/usr/local/share/man/man3/",
+		"/usr/local/share/man/man4/",
+		"/usr/local/share/man/man5/",
+		"/usr/local/share/man/man6/",
+		"/usr/local/share/man/man7/",
+		"/usr/local/share/man/man8/",
+		"/usr/local/share/man/man9/",
+		"/usr/local/share/man/mann/",
+		"/usr/local/src/",
+		"/usr/sbin/",
+		"/usr/share/",
+		"/usr/share/dict/",
+		"/usr/share/doc/",
+		"/usr/share/icons/",
+		"/usr/share/info/",
+		"/usr/share/man/",
+		"/usr/share/man/man1/",
+		"/usr/share/man/man2/",
+		"/usr/share/man/man3/",
+		"/usr/share/man/man4/",
+		"/usr/share/man/man5/",
+		"/usr/share/man/man6/",
+		"/usr/share/man/man7/",
+		"/usr/share/man/man8/",
+		"/usr/share/man/man9/",
+		"/usr/share/man/mann/",
+		"/usr/share/misc/",
+		"/usr/src/",
+		"/usr/tmp/",
+		"/var/",
+		"/var/cache/",
+		"/var/db/",
+		"/var/lib/",
+		"/var/lib/games/",
+		"/var/lib/misc/",
+		"/var/lib/rpm/",
+		"/var/local/",
+		"/var/log/",
+		"/var/mail/",
+		"/var/nis/",
+		"/var/opt/",
+		"/var/preserve/",
+		"/var/spool/",
+		"/var/spool/mail/",
+		"/var/tmp/"
+		);
+
 	# Place %config in front of files that are conffiles.
 	my @conffiles = @{$this->conffiles};
 	my $filelist;
 	foreach my $fn (@{$this->filelist}) {
-		# Unquote any escaped characters in filenames - needed for
-		# non ascii characters. (eg. iso_8859-1 latin set)
-		if ($fn =~ /\\/) {
-			$fn=eval qq{"$fn"};
-		}
+		if (! grep(m:^\Q$fn\E$:,@standard_dirs)) {
+			# Unquote any escaped characters in filenames - needed for
+			# non ascii characters. (eg. iso_8859-1 latin set)
+			if ($fn =~ /\\/) {
+				$fn=eval qq{"$fn"};
+			}
 
-		# Note all filenames are quoted in case they contain
-		# spaces.
-		if ($fn =~ m:/$:) {
-			$filelist.=qq{%dir "$fn"\n};
-		}
-		elsif (grep(m:^\Q$fn\E$:,@conffiles)) { # it's a conffile
-			$filelist.=qq{%config "$fn"\n};
-		}
-		else { # normal file
-			$filelist.=qq{"$fn"\n};
+			# Note all filenames are quoted in case they contain
+			# spaces.
+			if ($fn =~ m:/$:) {
+				$filelist.=qq{%dir "$fn"\n};
+			}
+			elsif (grep(m:^\Q$fn\E$:,@conffiles)) { # it's a conffile
+				$filelist.=qq{%config "$fn"\n};
+			}
+			else { # normal file
+				$filelist.=qq{"$fn"\n};
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -392,7 +525,7 @@ sub cleantree {
 
 =item build
 
-Build a rpm. If RPMBUILDOPT is set in the environement, the options in
+Build a rpm. If RPMBUILDOPT is set in the environment, the options in
 it are passed to rpm on its command line.
 
 An optional parameter, if passed, can be used to specify the program to use
@@ -424,7 +557,7 @@ 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
@@ -439,7 +572,7 @@ 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;
@@ -479,7 +612,7 @@ sub version {
 
 Set/get script fields.
 
-When retrieving a value, we have to do some truely sick mangling. Since
+When retrieving a value, we have to do some truly sick mangling. Since
 debian/slackware scripts can be anything -- perl programs or binary files
 -- and rpm is limited to only shell scripts, we need to encode the files
 and add a scrap of shell script to make it unextract and run on the fly.
@@ -564,7 +697,7 @@ sub prerm {
 
 Set/get arch field. When the arch field is set, some sanitizing is done
 first to convert it to the debian format used internally. When it's
-retreived it's converted back to rpm form from the internal form.
+retrieved it's converted back to rpm form from the internal form.
 
 =cut
 
@@ -607,9 +740,20 @@ sub arch {
 			# Treat armv4l as arm.
 			$arch='arm';
 		}
+		elsif ($arch eq 'armv7l') {
+			# Treat armv7l as armel.
+			$arch='armel';
+		}
+		elsif ($arch eq 'aarch64') {
+			# Treat aarch64 as arm64.
+			$arch='arm64';
+		}
 		elsif ($arch eq 'parisc') {
 			$arch='hppa';
 		}
+		elsif ($arch eq 'ppc64le') {
+			$arch='ppc64el';
+		}
 		
 		$this->{arch}=$arch;
 	}
@@ -629,6 +773,9 @@ sub arch {
 	elsif ($arch eq 'all') {
 		$arch='noarch';
 	}
+	elsif ($arch eq 'ppc64el') {
+		$arch='ppc64le';
+	}
 
 	return $arch
 }

Alien/Package/Slp.pm

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ character, I=unsigned integer.)
 =item footer_version
 
 What package format are we up to now? (Lowest one this is still
-compatable with.)
+compatible with.)
 
 =item archtrans
 
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Holds the slp package format version of the slp file.
 
 =item checkfile
 
-Detect slp files by their extention.
+Detect slp files by their extension.
 
 =cut
 
@@ -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;
 }
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ Set/get conffiles.
 
 When the conffiles are set, the format used by slp (a colon-delimited list)
 is turned into the real list that is used internally. The list is changed
-back into slp's internal format when it is retreived.
+back into slp's internal format when it is retrieved.
 
 =cut
 
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ Set/get copyright.
 
 When the copyright is set, the number used by slp is changed into a textual
 description. This is changed back into a number when the value is
-retreived.
+retrieved.
 
 =cut
 
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ Set/get arch.
 
 When the arch is set, the number used by slp is changed into a textual
 description. This is changed back into a number when the value is
-retreived.
+retrieved.
 
 =cut
 
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ sub arch {
 
 Set/get release version.
 
-When the release version is retreived, it is converted to an unsigned
+When the release version is retrieved, it is converted to an unsigned
 integer, as is required by the slp package format.
 
 =cut

Alien/Package/Tgz.pm

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ use constant scripttrans => {
 
 =item checkfile
 
-Detect tgz files by their extention.
+Detect tgz files by their extension.
 
 =cut
 
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ sub scan {
 	# Get basename of the filename.
 	my ($basename)=('/'.$file)=~m#^/?.*/(.*?)$#;
 
-	# Strip out any tar extentions.
+	# Strip out any tar extensions.
 	$basename=~s/$tarext//;
 
 	if ($basename=~m/([\w-]+)-([0-9\.?]+).*/) {
@@ -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;

Makefile.PL

@@ -19,17 +19,11 @@ VER=$(shell perl -e '$$_=<>;print m/\((.*?)\)/'<debian/changelog)
 
 all:: extra_build
 clean:: extra_build
-install:: extra_install
-pure_install:: extra_install
 
 extra_build:
 	perl -i -pe "s/\@version\@/$(VER)/g" <alien.lsm.in >alien.lsm
 	perl -i -pe "s/\@version\@/$(VER)/g" <alien.spec.in >alien.spec
 
-extra_install:
-	install -d $(PREFIX)/share/alien/patches \
-		   $(VARPREFIX)/var/lib/alien
-
 alien:
 	perl -pe '$$_="" if /use lib/; $$_="our \$$Version=\"$(VER)\";\n" if /VERSION_AUTOREPLACE/' alien.pl > alien
 }

alien.lsm

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Begin3
+Title:		alien
+Version:	8.95.2
+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-8.95.2.tar.gz
+Copying-policy:	GPL
+End

alien.pl

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ installed.
 
 =item lsb
 
-Unlike the other package formats, B<alien> can handle the depenendencies of
+Unlike the other package formats, B<alien> can handle the dependencies of
 lsb packages if the destination package format supports dependencies. Note
 that this means that the package generated from a lsb package will depend on
 a package named "lsb" -- your distribution should provide a package by that
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ built.
 =item B<--anypatch>
 
 Be less strict about which patch file is used, perhaps attempting to use a patch
-file for an older verson of the package. This is not guaranteed to always work;
+file for an older version of the package. This is not guaranteed to always work;
 older patches may not necessarily work with newer packages.
 
 =item B<--nopatch>
@@ -158,12 +158,12 @@ Do not use any patch files.
 
 =item B<--description=>I<desc>
 
-Specifiy a description for the package. This only has an effect when
+Specify a description for the package. This only has an effect when
 converting from the tgz package format, which lacks descriptions.
 
 =item B<--version=>I<version>
 
-Specifiy a version for the package. This only has an effect when
+Specify a version for the package. This only has an effect when
 converting from the tgz package format, which may lack version
 information.
 
@@ -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: 8.95.2
+Release: 1
+Source: ftp://kitenet.net/pub/code/debian/alien_8.95.2.tar.gz
+License: GPL
+Group: Utilities/File
+Buildroot: /tmp/alien-8.95.2.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-8.95.2.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

@@ -1,9 +1,190 @@
+alien (8.95.5) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * QA upload.
+  * Alien/Package/Deb.pm: Do not fail when dh_usrlocal returns
+    with nonzero value. A warning (shown in --veryverbose)
+    is generated instead. (Closes: #992188)
+
+ -- Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org>  Sun, 22 Aug 2021 01:14:58 -0400
+
+alien (8.95.4) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * QA upload.
+  * Alien/Package/Deb.pm: Fix incorrect debian/rules template by
+    properly escaping special characters (dh \$\@ instead of dh $@).
+    Closes: #983492.
+  * Alien/Package/Deb.pm: Fix incorrect file installation path.
+    This fixes the bug in manual override_dh_auto_install that files
+    are placed under / instead of /usr/ (default prefix).
+    Closes: #985835.
+  * Alien/Package/Rpm.pm: Also map aarch64 in rpm to arm64 in deb.
+    This fixes conversion of aarch64 rpm packages.
+    Closes: #985808.
+
+ -- Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org>  Wed, 07 Apr 2021 12:15:06 -0400
+
+alien (8.95.3) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * QA upload.
+  * Upload to unstable.
+
+ -- Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>  Thu, 11 Feb 2021 22:02:09 +0200
+
+alien (8.95.2) experimental; urgency=medium
+
+  * QA upload.
+  * debian/control:
+      + Bump debhelper compat to v13.
+      + Included Rules-Requires-Root: no
+  * debian/changelog:
+      + Removed trailing-whitespaces.
+  * alien.pl:
+      + Fixed some misspelled words.
+  * Alien/Package.pm:
+      + Fixed misspelled word.
+  * Alien/Package/Rpm.pm:
+      + Fixed misspeled word.
+  * debian/rules:
+      + Added a "nocheck" check on override_dh_auto_test.
+
+ -- Thiago da Silva Gracini <tsgracini@outlook.com>  Sun, 01 Nov 2020 15:35:34 -0300
+
+alien (8.95.1) experimental; urgency=medium
+
+  * QA upload.
+  * Rebuild source and binary package.
+  * debian/control:
+    + Bump debhelper compat to v12.
+    + Bump Standards-Version to 4.5.0.
+    + Update Vcs-* fields to use git packaging repo under Salsa
+      Debian group.
+  * Rpm.pm: Do not ship conflicting dirs. (Closes: #759533)
+  * Deb.pm:
+    + Use dh sequencer when generating deb packages.
+    + Bump supported debhelper compatibility level to v10.
+
+ -- Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org>  Tue, 31 Mar 2020 10:52:19 -0400
+
+alien (8.95) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * QA upload.
+  * debian/control:
+      - Bumped Standards-Version to 3.9.6.
+      - Removed duplicated section field.
+  * debian/copyright:
+      - Replaced protocol from http to https in the Format field.
+      - Included authors' e-mail addresses.
+      - Replaced GPL-2+ license reference by actual GPL-2+ license.
+  * debian/source/format: Created as 3.0 (native).
+
+ -- Fabiano Antunes <fabianoantunes@itgen.com.br>  Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:09:04 -0300
+
+alien (8.94) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * QA upload.
+  * Fix "FTBFS with perl 5.22 in experimental (MakeMaker changes)":
+    remove override_dh_auto_install in debian/rules, and
+    use DESTDIR in Makefile.PL.
+    (Closes: #792371)
+
+ -- gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>  Sat, 25 Jul 2015 21:24:15 +0200
+
+alien (8.93) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Alien needs a new maintainer, both in Debian and upstream.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:25:47 -0400
+
+alien (8.92) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Remove suggests for lsb-rpm, which no longer exists.
+    Closes: #756873
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 31 Aug 2014 14:16:23 -0700
+
+alien (8.91) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Support other deb data.tar compression schemes in fallback code.
+    Closes: #718364
+    Thanks, Guillem Jover
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:03:54 -0400
+
+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. 
+  * 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.
@@ -419,7 +600,7 @@ alien (8.30) unstable; urgency=low
 
 alien (8.26) unstable; urgency=low
 
-  * alien.spec: pass PREFIX to Makefile.PL so it works on systems 
+  * alien.spec: pass PREFIX to Makefile.PL so it works on systems
     (such as red hat 8) where the generated Makefile does not use
     $PREFIX in all paths.
 
@@ -576,7 +757,7 @@ alien (8.07) unstable; urgency=low
 
 alien (8.06) unstable; urgency=low
 
-  * Added --fixperms option. Closes: #142850 
+  * Added --fixperms option. Closes: #142850
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:19:12 -0400
 
@@ -657,7 +838,7 @@ alien (7.30) unstable; urgency=low
     work with solaris's ar and tar.
   * Documented the EMAIL environment variable. Closes: #116754
   * Threw out a lot of old patches, circa 1999. Probably useless today.
-  * When converting to debs, move files as follows, if possible, for better 
+  * When converting to debs, move files as follows, if possible, for better
     FHS compliance:
   	/usr/man	=> /usr/share/man
         /usr/info	=> /usr/share/info
@@ -723,7 +904,7 @@ alien (7.20) unstable; urgency=low
   * Updated to use debhelper v3 when converting packages. This
     automatically should make it start adding ldconfig calls
     as appropriate to maintainer scripts. Closes: #86088
-  * It does mean you need debhelper 3.x for alien to convert to 
+  * It does mean you need debhelper 3.x for alien to convert to
     deb now, so alien-extra will need an update.
   * Rebuilt with newer perl, so it will work with newer perl (bug filed;
     this should not have been necessary).
@@ -738,7 +919,7 @@ alien (7.18) unstable; urgency=low
 
 alien (7.17) unstable; urgency=low
 
-  * Munge in #!/bin/sh entries at the top of rpm maintainer 
+  * Munge in #!/bin/sh entries at the top of rpm maintainer
     scripts that appear to be shell scripts. Closes: #76124
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  7 Feb 2001 18:58:56 -0800
@@ -803,7 +984,7 @@ alien (7.9) unstable; urgency=low
 
 alien (7.8) unstable; urgency=low
 
-  * Use debhelper v2 for debian/rules, but not when converting 
+  * Use debhelper v2 for debian/rules, but not when converting
     packages to deb format.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:36:25 -0700
@@ -835,7 +1016,7 @@ alien (7.5) unstable; urgency=low
 
 alien (7.4) unstable; urgency=low
 
-  * Corrected typo that broke Deb.pm, Closes: #64559 
+  * Corrected typo that broke Deb.pm, Closes: #64559
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 23 May 2000 19:30:04 -0700
 
@@ -850,7 +1031,7 @@ alien (7.3) unstable; urgency=low
 
 alien (7.2) unstable; urgency=low
 
-  * When reloating files from a rpm, run the mv command directly, 
+  * When reloating files from a rpm, run the mv command directly,
     not in a subshell; this is safer especially if odd filenames are
     involved.
   * When converting from rpm, only chmod each directory once, it was doing
@@ -1109,7 +1290,7 @@ alien (6.34) unstable; urgency=low
 alien (6.33) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Fixes for rpm 3.0:
-    - Since rpm --showrc has changed to a format that is now very 
+    - Since rpm --showrc has changed to a format that is now very
       difficult to machine parse for the topdir value, don't. Instead,
       force rpm to output the rpm into the cirrent directory. This is
       more consistent anyway.
@@ -1153,7 +1334,7 @@ alien (6.29) unstable; urgency=low
 
 alien (6.28) unstable; urgency=low
 
-  * Don't call dh_installmanpages when converting to .deb, it can do the 
+  * Don't call dh_installmanpages when converting to .deb, it can do the
     wrong thing in some instances.
   * Handling of relocatable packages was broken. (#31868) Fixed it by
     looking at the rpm PREFIXES tag.
@@ -1178,7 +1359,7 @@ alien (6.25) unstable; urgency=low
   * Alien can now be installed into eg, /usr/local via a PREFIX variaible
     in the Makefile, based on work by Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com>.
   * Typo fix from Roman Shterenzon.
-  * Moved the patch files that come with alien out of /var/lib/alien 
+  * Moved the patch files that come with alien out of /var/lib/alien
     into /usr/lib/alien/patches. Alien will now check both directories for
     patches, /var first.
 
@@ -1240,7 +1421,7 @@ alien (6.17) unstable; urgency=low
 alien (6.16) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * When converting from .tgz files, use arch: all. Sort of a hack, but
-    since we don't know what arch of stuff is in them, it's as good a 
+    since we don't know what arch of stuff is in them, it's as good a
     guess as any. This will let people use the conversion on other
     architectures. (#26253).
 
@@ -1302,7 +1483,7 @@ alien (6.09) unstable; urgency=low
     to be generated by "alien --to-rpm --scripts".
   * That bug is even less likely, becuase it turns out --scripts has been
     broken since alien version 6.0. Oops. Fixed.
-  * --single and --description were also broken since 6.0, and are fixed 
+  * --single and --description were also broken since 6.0, and are fixed
     now.
   * It used to be that only shell scripts could be converted to rpm format,
     because of a stupid bug. Fixed.
@@ -1430,7 +1611,7 @@ alien (5.19) unstable; urgency=low
 alien (5.18) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Use debhelper to build alien (still uses debstd to convert packages).
-  * Use dpkg-deb if available, instead of using ar. This fixes #12318: alien 
+  * Use dpkg-deb if available, instead of using ar. This fixes #12318: alien
     can now handle old format deb files.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 27 Sep 1997 15:52:08 -0400
@@ -1438,7 +1619,7 @@ alien (5.18) unstable; urgency=low
 alien (5.17) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Added version info to filename of generated .tgz files.
-  * Added --keep-version flag, which makes alien not increment the 
+  * Added --keep-version flag, which makes alien not increment the
     release number/debian version number.
   * Man page fixups.
   * Fixes for epochs (for now, just remove epochs, since rpm cannot handle
@@ -1469,7 +1650,7 @@ alien (5.14) unstable; urgency=low
 
 alien (5.13) unstable; urgency=low
 
-  * Preliminary support for converting install scripts with the --scripts 
+  * Preliminary support for converting install scripts with the --scripts
     option. We have to uuencode them for rpm's.
   * Revised documentation.
   * Routine update of debian/rules:
@@ -1538,8 +1719,8 @@ alien (5.5) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Added some more documentation and warnings about file ownerships getting
     screwed up if you run alien as non-root.
-  * Added basic support for converting to Slackware tgz format. Mostly 
-    untested. I confess, I did this just to simplify the documentation of 
+  * Added basic support for converting to Slackware tgz format. Mostly
+    untested. I confess, I did this just to simplify the documentation of
     what alien can do. It was only 10 lines of code to add this, anyway. :-)
   * Had a hard drive crash and reassembled this package from bits and
     pieces. Hope it's not broken..
@@ -1573,7 +1754,7 @@ alien (5.2) unstable; urgency=low
 alien (5.1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Added partial support for relocatable packages: DEFAULTPREFIX is
-    examined, and if set, a subdirectory by the same name is created in the 
+    examined, and if set, a subdirectory by the same name is created in the
     build directory of the package. This means relocatable packages end up
     in a sane location, not scattered in the root directory as they were
     previously.
@@ -1605,7 +1786,7 @@ alien (4.2) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * When installing deb file, alien will use --no-force-overwrite
     The idea behind this is to make it difficult to trash your debian system
-    by installing alien packages that overwrite files in it. This only works 
+    by installing alien packages that overwrite files in it. This only works
     if you use alien --install, not if you install the resulting .deb file by
     hand. This is a temporary fix until dpkg has --force-overwrite turned
     off by default.
@@ -1615,7 +1796,7 @@ alien (4.2) unstable; urgency=low
 alien (4.1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * If a package has underscores in it's name and is being converted to deb
-    format, change the underscores to dashes. Thanks to  
+    format, change the underscores to dashes. Thanks to
     Robert Coie <rac@mata.intrigue.com>
   * Strip out any other disallowed characters in package name when
     converting to deb.
@@ -1639,7 +1820,7 @@ alien (4.00) unstable; urgency=low
     postinst. If there is any demand, I'll try to work this back into the
     program.
   * Rewrote most of the man page.
-  * Fixed the version number so there are two digets in the minor revision 
+  * Fixed the version number so there are two digets in the minor revision
     number.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 29 Mar 1997 21:49:30 -0500
@@ -1711,7 +1892,7 @@ alien (2.80) unstable; urgency=low
   * Fixed bug in guessing name of patch file to use.
   * Fixed bug that would not let you specify a patch file in the current
     directory, or a relative path to a patch file.
-  * Don't use /etc/rpmrc as an indiciation of whether rpm is present, as 
+  * Don't use /etc/rpmrc as an indiciation of whether rpm is present, as
     this is a conffile, and might be deleted. Test for actual rpm binary.
   * More friendly error message if patch file is not found, suggesting that
     you try -n option.
@@ -2456,7 +2637,7 @@ debmake (1.00) unstable; urgency=low
   * rpminstall enables a direct installation of Red Hat packages into the
     debian package maintenance system! All dpkg commands will work on it!
   * rpminstall uses debstd and thus compresses manpages + documentation and
-    computes dependencies according to the libraries referenced by the 
+    computes dependencies according to the libraries referenced by the
     ELF binaries in the Red Hat package.
 
  -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Sun, 27 Oct 1996 12:17:51 -0800
@@ -2572,7 +2753,7 @@ debmake (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Added automatic compression of documentation in /usr/man and /usr/doc
     if files are >1K.
-  * Checks for dangling symlinks and redirects symlinks to filenames that 
+  * Checks for dangling symlinks and redirects symlinks to filenames that
     were changed due to compression.
   * Added rc.boot handling
   * Permissions for documentation were set to executable when debstd was

debian/compat

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-7

debian/control

@@ -1,17 +1,25 @@
 Source: alien
 Section: admin
 Priority: optional
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50)
-Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
-Standards-Version: 3.8.4
-Vcs-Git: git://git.kitenet.net/alien
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13)
+Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
+Standards-Version: 4.6.0
+Rules-Requires-Root: no
+Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/alien.git
+Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/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
-Suggests: patch, bzip2, lsb-rpm, lintian, lzma
+Depends: debhelper (>= 10),
+         ${misc:Depends},
+         ${perl:Depends},
+         rpm (>= 2.4.4-2),
+         dpkg-dev,
+         make,
+         cpio,
+         rpm2cpio
+Suggests: patch, bzip2, 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 +1,34 @@
-This is a program originally written by Christoph Lameter
-<clameter@debian.org>.
+Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
+Source: native package
 
-Deb to rpm conversion code was taken from the Martian program by
-Randolph Chung <randolph@tausq.org>.
-
-The Solaris pkg code was written by Mark A. Hershberger
-<mah@everybody.org>.
-
-This program is now maintained by Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>.
-
-Copyright 1996, 1997 Christoph Lameter
-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.
+Files: *
+Copyright: 1996-1997	Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>
+	   1997		Randolph Chung <rc42@cornell.edu>
+	   2001		Mark A. Hershberger <mah@everybody.org>
+	   1997-2011	Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
+License: GPL-2+
+	   
+Files: debian/*
+Copyright: 1996-1997	Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>
+	   1997		Randolph Chung <rc42@cornell.edu>
+	   2001		Mark A. Hershberger <mah@everybody.org>
+	   1997-2011	Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
+	   2015		Fabiano Antunes <fabianoantunes@itgen.com.br>
+License: GPL-2+
 
+License: GPL-2+
+ This package 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 package 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, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
+ .
+ On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
+ Public License version 2 can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2".

debian/rules

@@ -3,13 +3,10 @@
 	dh $@
 
 override_dh_auto_test:
-	# simple smoke test
+ifeq (,$(filter nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
 	./alien.pl -V
+endif
 
-override_dh_auto_install:
-	$(MAKE) pure_install INSTALLDIRS=vendor \
-		PREFIX=$(shell pwd)/debian/alien/$(shell perl -MConfig -e 'print $$Config{prefix}') \
-		VARPREFIX=$(shell pwd)/debian/alien
 
 override_dh_auto_clean:
 	# distclean moans about MANIFEST, this is quieter

debian/source/format

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.0 (native)