Renamed debian/tests/convert_deb_to_rpm.sh to debian/tests/convert-deb-to-rpm.sh

Create autopkgtest

.gitattributes

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

.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
 

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
 
@@ -117,6 +122,26 @@ sub test {
 	}
 }
 
+=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
@@ -142,11 +167,58 @@ sub getcontrolfile {
 				" 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:\./::; "/$_" }
+		$datamember_cmd = "dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile '$file'";
-			  $this->runpipe(0, "dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile '$file' | tar tf -");
 	}
 	else {
-		@filelist=map { chomp; s:\./::; "/$_" }
+		$datamember_cmd = $this->get_datamember_cmd($file);
-			  $this->runpipe(0, "ar -p '$file' data.tar.gz | gzip -dc | tar tf -");
 	}
+	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: $!";
 	}
 
@@ -385,7 +459,7 @@ sub prep {
 
 	# Use debhelper v7
 	open (OUT, ">$dir/debian/compat") || die "$dir/debian/compat: $!";
-	print OUT "7\n";
+	print OUT "10\n";
 	close OUT;
 
 	# A minimal rules file.
@@ -397,64 +471,54 @@ sub prep {
 
 PACKAGE=\$(shell dh_listpackages)
 
-build:
+%:
-	dh_testdir
+	dh \$\@
 
-clean:
+override_dh_clean:
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
 	dh_clean -d
 
-binary-indep: build
+override_dh_auto_configure:
 
-binary-arch: build
+override_dh_auto_build:
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	dh_prep
-	dh_installdirs
-
-	dh_installdocs
-	dh_installchangelogs
 
+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
 
-binary: binary-indep binary-arch
+override_dh_usrlocal:
-.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary
+	-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
+
 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.
@@ -542,7 +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
@@ -596,12 +660,13 @@ 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 $_;
 }
 
@@ -727,30 +792,50 @@ 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 defined $postinst && length $postinst;
 	
-	return $postinst unless %$owninfo;
-	
 	my ($firstline, $rest)=split(/\n/, $postinst, 2);
 	if ($firstline !~ m/^#!\s*\/bin\/(ba)?sh/) {
 		print STDERR "warning: unable to add ownership fixup code to postinst as the postinst is not a shell script!\n";

Alien/Package/Lsb.pm

@@ -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

@@ -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
@@ -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);
@@ -302,10 +302,142 @@ 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}) {
+		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 =~ /\\/) {
@@ -324,6 +456,7 @@ sub prep {
 				$filelist.=qq{"$fn"\n};
 			}
 		}
+	}
 
 	# Write out the spec file.
 	my $spec="$dir/".$this->name."-".$this->version."-".$this->release.".spec";
@@ -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
@@ -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 +773,12 @@ sub arch {
 	elsif ($arch eq 'all') {
 		$arch='noarch';
 	}
+	elsif ($arch eq 'arm64') {
+		$arch='aarch64';
+	}
+	elsif ($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
 
@@ -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\.?]+).*/) {

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

@@ -1,3 +1,184 @@
+alien (8.95.8) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * QA upload.
+  * debian/salsa-ci.yml: Add to provide CI tests for Salsa.
+  * debian/tests/*: Create autopkgtest.
+
+ -- Daniel Alber Costa <danielrodrc@gmail.com>  Sun, 24 Nov 2024 21:32:45 -0300
+
+alien (8.95.7) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * QA upload.
+  * debian/copyright: use spaces rather than tabs to start continuation lines.
+  * Update standards version to 4.6.2, no changes needed.
+
+  [ Alois Klink ]
+  * Alien/Package/Rpm.pm: Map arm64 in deb to aarch64 in rpm.
+    This fixes conversion of arm64 deb packages.
+
+ -- Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>  Sat, 22 Jun 2024 19:41:24 +0000
+
+alien (8.95.6) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * QA upload.
+
+  [ Debian Janitor ]
+  * Remove constraints unnecessary since buster:
+    + alien: Drop versioned constraint on rpm in Depends.
+
+ -- Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org>  Wed, 25 May 2022 18:54:06 +0100
+
+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

debian/compat

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

debian/control

@@ -1,17 +1,25 @@
 Source: alien
 Section: admin
 Priority: optional
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50)
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13)
-Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
+Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
-Standards-Version: 3.9.2
+Standards-Version: 4.6.2
-Vcs-Git: git://git.kitenet.net/alien
+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 (>= 10),
-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio, rpm2cpio
+         ${misc:Depends},
-Suggests: patch, bzip2, lsb-rpm, lintian, lzma
+         ${perl:Depends},
+         rpm,
+         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

@@ -1,13 +1,34 @@
-Format: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/
+Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
 Source: native package
 
 Files: *
-Copyright:
+Copyright: 1996-1997	Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>
- 1996, 1997 Christoph Lameter
+           1997		Randolph Chung <rc42@cornell.edu>
- 1997 Randolph Chung
+           2001		Mark A. Hershberger <mah@everybody.org>
- 2001 Mark A. Hershberger
+           1997-2011	Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
- 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.
 
+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/salsa-ci.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+include:
+  - https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/raw/master/recipes/debian.yml

debian/source/format

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

debian/tests/control

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Test-Command: alien --help 2>&1 | grep "^Usage: alien"
+Restrictions: allow-stderr, superficial
+
+Tests: convert-deb-to-rpm.sh
+Restrictions: allow-stderr, superficial

debian/tests/convert-deb-to-rpm.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+cp debian/tests/data/* $AUTOPKGTEST_TMP
+cd $AUTOPKGTEST_TMP
+
+alien --to-rpm *