releasing version 8.84

Alien/Package.pm

@@ -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
+	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;
 }

Alien/Package/Deb.pm

@@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ sub postinst {
 	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;
 	

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+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

debian/copyright

@@ -1,35 +1,13 @@
-This is a program originally written by Christoph Lameter
+Format: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/
-<clameter@debian.org>.
+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
 
+Files: *
+Copyright:
+ 1996, 1997 Christoph Lameter
+ 1997 Randolph Chung
+ 2001 Mark A. Hershberger
+ 1997-2011 Joey Hess
+License: GPL-2+
  On Debian systems, the complete text of the GPL can be found in
  /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.