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.

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:\./::; "/$_" }
+		$datamember_cmd = "dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile '$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: $!";
 	}
 

alien.lsm

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Begin3
 Title:		alien
-Version:	8.90
+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 
@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@ Description:	Alien converts Slackware .tgz packages, Red Hat .rpm 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-8.90.tar.gz
+		80	alien-8.93.tar.gz
 Copying-policy:	GPL
 End

alien.spec

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 Summary: Install Debian, Slackware, and Stampede packages with rpm.
 Name: alien
 Packager: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
-Version: 8.90
+Version: 8.93
 Release: 1
-Source: ftp://kitenet.net/pub/code/debian/alien_8.90.tar.gz
+Source: ftp://kitenet.net/pub/code/debian/alien_8.93.tar.gz
 License: GPL
 Group: Utilities/File
-Buildroot: /tmp/alien-8.90.build
+Buildroot: /tmp/alien-8.93.build
 Requires: perl
 BuildArchitectures: noarch
 
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ This is a tool only suitable for binary packages.
 
 %prep
 %setup -n alien
-rm -rf /tmp/alien-8.90.build
+rm -rf /tmp/alien-8.93.build
 
 %install
 perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
+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

debian/control

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: alien
 Section: admin
 Priority: optional
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9)
-Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
+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.