Alien needs a new maintainer, both in Debian and upstream.

Add support for control.tar, control.tar.xz, data.tar, data.tar.xz,
data.tar.bz2 (deprecated) and data.tar.lzma (deprecated), so that the
fallback code is in line with current dpkg-deb.

The deprecated members are supported because there might be such binary
packages laying around.

.gitignore

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

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
@@ -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:\./::; "/$_" }
-			  $this->runpipe(0, "dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile '$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: $!";
 	}
 

Alien/Package/Rpm.pm

@@ -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);
@@ -607,9 +607,16 @@ sub arch {
 			# Treat armv4l as arm.
 			$arch='arm';
 		}
+		elsif ($arch eq 'armv7l') {
+			# Treat armv7l as armel.
+			$arch='armel';
+		}
 		elsif ($arch eq 'parisc') {
 			$arch='hppa';
 		}
+		elsif ($arch eq 'ppc64le') {
+			$arch='ppc64el';
+		}
 		
 		$this->{arch}=$arch;
 	}
@@ -629,6 +636,9 @@ sub arch {
 	elsif ($arch eq 'all') {
 		$arch='noarch';
 	}
+	elsif ($arch eq 'ppc64el') {
+		$arch='ppc64le';
+	}
 
 	return $arch
 }

alien.lsm

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Begin3
+Title:		alien
+Version:	8.93
+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-8.93.tar.gz
+Copying-policy:	GPL
+End

alien.pl

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

alien.spec

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+Summary: Install Debian, Slackware, and Stampede packages with rpm.
+Name: alien
+Packager: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
+Version: 8.93
+Release: 1
+Source: ftp://kitenet.net/pub/code/debian/alien_8.93.tar.gz
+License: GPL
+Group: Utilities/File
+Buildroot: /tmp/alien-8.93.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-8.93.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 +1,41 @@
+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

debian/compat

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

debian/control

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 Source: alien
 Section: admin
 Priority: optional
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50)
-Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
-Standards-Version: 3.9.3
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9)
+Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
+Standards-Version: 3.9.5
 Vcs-Git: git://git.kitenet.net/alien
 Homepage: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/
 
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Package: alien
 Architecture: all
 Section: admin
 Depends: debhelper (>= 7), ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio, rpm2cpio
-Suggests: patch, bzip2, lsb-rpm, lintian, lzma
+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.