Get:1 http://changelogs.ubuntu.com alien 8.95 Changelog [97.2 kB] 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 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 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 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 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 Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:03:54 -0400 alien (8.90) unstable; urgency=medium * Add --target= option for setting architecture. Closes: #260948 (Thanks, Teemu Ikonen) * Add conversion from ppc64le (rpm) to ppc64el (deb). * debhelper v9 -- Joey Hess 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 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 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 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 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:12:35 -0400 alien (8.85) unstable; urgency=low * Avoid breaking on spaces in filenames. Closes: #618636 -- Joey Hess 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 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 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 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. (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. * Fix precedence problem that prevented alien from preserving permissions of suid/sgid binaries that are not owned by root. (Patch by Duane Waddle, on a bug tracking system I don't frequent, that was about the "expire" it 4 days from now. We got lucky Duane, but please use the Debian BTS next time!) * Support RPMs containing ghost files. (Patch by Ben Webb, who would get his patches applied quicker if he actually communicated them to the program's author.) -- Joey Hess Mon, 17 May 2010 20:56:59 -0400 alien (8.80) unstable; urgency=low * Support querying rpm LICENSE field. (Alexey Khoroshilov) -- Joey Hess Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:44:52 -0400 alien (8.79) unstable; urgency=low * Typo. Closes: #554379 * Modify -g and -s to support running on multiple packages at once. Closes: #554404 * Removed all built-in patches for converting specific packages (j2sdk, jdk, lgtoclnt, motif) with alien. These were out of date, and not maintained. Alien will not include such patches going forward. * Depend on the new rpm2cpio package. Closes: #559061 -- Joey Hess Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:23:55 -0500 alien (8.78) unstable; urgency=low * Add support for rpm 4.7.0, which ignores the buildroot setting in the spec file, by passing --buildroot. (Thanks, Pavel Roskin) -- Joey Hess Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:53:05 -0400 alien (8.77) unstable; urgency=low * Don't allow whitespace in package version when parsing debian/changelog. * In rpm permission fixup code, avoid processing symlinks since that would result in the file the link points to being "fixed". Closes: #535586 -- Joey Hess Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:37:01 -0400 alien (8.76) unstable; urgency=low * Avoid using hostname -f for portability to unix systems, such as Solaris, where any options _set_ the hostname. * Fix bash shebang and recognise bash scripts as editable shell scripts when converting to deb. Closes: #532330 (Thanks, Bruce Stephens) -- Joey Hess Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:22:35 -0400 alien (8.75) unstable; urgency=low * Simplified rules file. * Modify maintainer scripts from rpm files to use /bin/bash rather than /bin/sh. Many such scripts are only tested on systems where /bin/sh is bash, and contain bashisms, which can cause trouble when converting the rpm to be used on eg, the Debian family of distributions, where /bin/sh can legitimatly be dash. Closes: #495971 -- Joey Hess Wed, 06 May 2009 17:22:02 -0400 alien (8.74) unstable; urgency=low * Support bzipped and uncompressed tar files, using tar's auto-compression detection. (Requires gnu tar 1.14.91) * pod fixes -- Joey Hess Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:51:54 -0500 alien (8.73) unstable; urgency=low * Fix pkg generation to not include /prototype in all packages. (Kim Bisgaard) -- Joey Hess Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:43:47 -0400 alien (8.72) unstable; urgency=low * Use debhelper 7, rules file minimisation. * Improve parsing of tgz filenames, to avoid confusion when the filename includes the package type (ie, "noarch"). Patch from Andrej Ricnik-Bay. * When generating a debian changelog file, work around bug #478925 by including the alien changelog text inside the debian changelog entry. -- Joey Hess Thu, 01 May 2008 15:40:34 -0400 alien (8.71) unstable; urgency=low * Deal with rpms that relocate ie, /usr into /usr/local, and don't try to move /usr into /usr/local in this case. Closes: #470905 -- Joey Hess Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:35:33 -0400 alien (8.70) unstable; urgency=low * Extract prefixes field before extracting scripts so that RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX gets set. -- Joey Hess Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:05:40 -0400 alien (8.69) unstable; urgency=low * Alien's repository has moved from subversion to git. * Minor improvement to debian/rules clean. * Improve the short description. -- Joey Hess Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:27:53 -0400 alien (8.68) unstable; urgency=low * Show output of installation of package with -i, since some packages install scripts may have important output or even be interactive. Closes: #425732 -- Joey Hess Thu, 24 May 2007 14:08:39 -0400 alien (8.67) unstable; urgency=low * Update the url to the web page, and remove several other broken urls from the README. * Correct a bug that caused alien to ignore failing commands. Closes: #424858 -- Joey Hess Thu, 17 May 2007 13:34:36 -0400 alien (8.66) unstable; urgency=low * Use date -R as 822-date will soon be deprecated. -- Joey Hess Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:45:24 -0400 alien (8.65) unstable; urgency=low * Fix alien's own spec file, s/Copyright/License/. * Add support for rpm scripts that use RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX, by setting RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX as part of the converted script. Closes: #400863 * When converting LSB packages, do not increment the release number. * Use rpmbuild to build lsb packages, not rpm, if lsb-rpm is not available. -- Joey Hess Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:46:38 -0500 alien (8.64) unstable; urgency=low * Minor improvement to usage message as reported in [some random blog somewhere that I happened to read by accident]. -- Joey Hess Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:51:45 -0500 alien (8.63) unstable; urgency=low * Correct code to properly use RPMBUILDOPT (not RPMBUILDOPTS). Closes: #352816 * Corrected fix for bug #352810 to look at and chmod the right directories. Closes: #352810 -- Joey Hess Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:28:22 -0500 alien (8.62) unstable; urgency=low * Fix a bug in conffile script extraction from tgz files (caused by return from runpipe not defaulting to a scalar). -- Joey Hess Thu, 2 Feb 2006 15:12:51 -0500 alien (8.61) unstable; urgency=low * Add em64t as another alias for amd64. * Makefile.PL fix for new make line wrapping. -- Joey Hess Sat, 7 Jan 2006 13:37:07 -0500 alien (8.60) unstable; urgency=low * Make cpio leading directory permission fixup code work with new cpio default permissions too. Closes: #340588 -- Joey Hess Sun, 27 Nov 2005 17:02:41 -0500 alien (8.59) unstable; urgency=low * Hmm, seems rpm renamed Copyright to License and fails w/o the new field. Fix. -- Joey Hess Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:26:35 -0500 alien (8.58) unstable; urgency=low * Remove Copyright: from generated alien spec file since for some reason rpm has obsoleted and begun falling over on that line. (Inert profanity here.) Closes: #337028 * debian/copyright verbosification patch from tbm. Closes: #337363 -- Joey Hess Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:06:39 -0500 alien (8.57) unstable; urgency=low * hppa <=> parisc conversion for rpm. Closes: #338187 -- Joey Hess Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:39:06 -0500 alien (8.56) unstable; urgency=low * Warn if a package contains maintainer scripts which are not converted, since this can result in broken packages. * Many small fixes. -- Joey Hess Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:21:42 -0400 alien (8.55) unstable; urgency=low * Add lgtoclnt patch from Clint. Closes: #276365 * Remove old openmotif patches. It's in non-free now. * Update other patches to use debhelper v4. * Fix deb package postinst retreival, was broken by the permissions fixup code. Closes: #304828 * Use postrm when generating a rpm spec file with scripts enabled. Before this never worked. -- Joey Hess Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:03:27 -0400 alien (8.54) unstable; urgency=low * Patch from Alexander Jolk adding a --bump option. Closes: #311681 -- Joey Hess Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:20:31 -0400 alien (8.53) unstable; urgency=low * Build packages using debhelper v4 mode. -- Joey Hess Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:10:26 -0400 alien (8.52) unstable; urgency=low * Add a new parameter to runpipe to control whether it automatically checks the return code of the command (and exits). Turn this on for many runpipe calls that are not expected to fail in normal operation, but can fail if the input file is empty, corrupt, or not readable. Previous behavior for rpm files was a cascading failure that created weird directories in cwd. Closes: #305592 -- Joey Hess Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:34:41 -0400 alien (8.51) unstable; urgency=low * In rpm unpack permission fixup code, do not call chmod on symlinks, as it will follow the links. -- Joey Hess Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:21:14 -0500 alien (8.50) unstable; urgency=low * Recognise udebs and treat them like debs. Closes: #284693 -- Joey Hess Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:20:42 -0500 alien (8.49) unstable; urgency=low * Add support for config files in relocatale directories. Relocate filenames in the conffiles list. Closes: #283774 * Correct permissions fixup code for parent directories from rpms to take the umask into account when searching for such directories. And make such directories mode 755, not 700. Closes: #271903 -- Joey Hess Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:09:11 -0500 alien (8.48) unstable; urgency=low * Support cross-building rpms, output rpm should always be same arch as input package now. -- Joey Hess Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:35:28 -0500 alien (8.47) unstable; urgency=low * x86_64 rpms become amd64 debs * Add new java 1.5.0 diffs from Gerald Turner. * Clean out old j2sdk diffs. -- Joey Hess Sun, 3 Oct 2004 13:59:49 -0400 alien (8.46) unstable; urgency=low * Unset _unpackaged_files_terminate_build when building rpms, at least SuSE sets this, which breaks alien due to its placement of the spec file in the build directory. -- Joey Hess Sun, 1 Aug 2004 20:50:37 -0400 alien (8.45) unstable; urgency=low * Run dh_clean with -d to avoid cleaning up any oddly named files from rpms, like .orig files. Closes: #261964 -- Joey Hess Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:14:39 -0400 alien (8.44) unstable; urgency=low * Don't add line about permissions fixup code to postinst if there is not code to add. * Don't assume that just because we know of a user or are root, that files can go into the deb owned by that user, and come out right on install. Instead, assume that any non-root user will not be on the target system the rpm is installed on, and that it might be created in the preinst or something, so add permissions fixup code for all such users. -- Joey Hess Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:51:48 -0500 alien (8.43) unstable; urgency=low * Added a new j2sdk_1.4.2_03-1.diff from Gerald Turner. -- Joey Hess Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:05:17 -0500 alien (8.42) unstable; urgency=low * Do not register conffiles in /etc when generating a deb; debhelper v3 takes care of that. -- Joey Hess Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:25:48 -0500 alien (8.41) unstable; urgency=low * Generate a build tree on request even when the source and dest formats are the same. Closes: #222311 -- Joey Hess Sat, 29 Nov 2003 18:29:29 -0500 alien (8.40) unstable; urgency=low * Include the version of alien that generated a deb or rpm in the description. Closes: #220763 * Also put it in the changelog of debian packages. -- Joey Hess Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:57:44 -0500 alien (8.39) unstable; urgency=low * Fix a couple more mistakes in the code added in 8.36. -- Joey Hess Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:53:36 -0500 alien (8.38) unstable; urgency=low * Fix a couple of typos in the code added in 8.36; it should actually work now. -- Joey Hess Mon, 3 Nov 2003 16:21:40 -0500 alien (8.37) unstable; urgency=low * Make sure the working directory's subdirs have sane modes before trying to delete it, in case it has unwritable dirs and alien is not running as root. Closes: #217330 -- Joey Hess Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:45:31 -0500 alien (8.36) unstable; urgency=low * Patch from aj to fix permissions of setuid files that have their owners created in the preinst. * Alien's repository has moved from CVS to subversion. -- Joey Hess Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:04:17 -0400 alien (8.35) unstable; urgency=low * Move from build-depends-indep to build-depends, to meet current policy. -- Joey Hess Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:14:58 -0400 alien (8.34) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed changelog parsing regexp. Noticed by Gerald Turner who is sure turning up in this changelog a lot. * Updated j2sdk patch fixes some ControlPanel shell script incompatabilities. Closes: #200731 -- Joey Hess Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:35:09 +0200 alien (8.33) unstable; urgency=low * Added a new j2sdk patch that does not rename the package. -- Joey Hess Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:49:25 -0400 alien (8.32) unstable; urgency=low * Removed the two newest j2sdk patches, which both rename the package, breaking alien -i. Closes: #199992 -- Joey Hess Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:44:45 -0400 alien (8.31) unstable; urgency=low * Updated the j2sdk patch for version 1.4.2. (From Gerald Turner.) -- Joey Hess Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:55:10 -0400 alien (8.30) unstable; urgency=low * Added -v to enable verbose mode, which lists each shell command as it is run. Also added --veryverbose for verbose with command output too. * Use -V for version. (-v used to be documented, but never worked) -- Joey Hess Wed, 14 May 2003 00:12:00 -0400 alien (8.26) unstable; urgency=low * 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. -- Joey Hess Tue, 29 Apr 2003 23:12:32 -0400 alien (8.25) unstable; urgency=low * Support rpms that contain no files. Closes: #184714 -- Joey Hess Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:34:33 -0800 alien (8.24) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected precidence problem that made alien not catch mkdir of the work directory failing if the directory already existed (and let it delete the existing directory). Closes: #181061 * Fixed several other instances of the same precidence problem in the code. -- Joey Hess Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:18:44 -0500 alien (8.23) unstable; urgency=low * Updated j2sdk patch again. -- Joey Hess Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:51:11 -0500 alien (8.22) unstable; urgency=low * Use rpmbuild -bb instead of rpm -bb, as it seems that rpm -bb has stopped working in recent versions of rpm, as shipped by red hat (Debian's rpm, confusingly, continues to support rpm -bb, possibly because of how I hack its popt stuff up for debian.) This may fail with older, pre-rpmbuild rpm's; if so you should upgrade to a more current version I guess. * Updated js2k patch from Gerald Turner. -- Joey Hess Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:35:40 -0500 alien (8.21) unstable; urgency=low * Pach from Erwan MAS that allows specification of the version of a tgz file, for files that don't have a parseable version number. For consistency with --description, I made the otpino be called --version -- if no argument is specified to this option, it retains its old behavior of displaying alien's version, but it is now overloaded if given an argument. Closes: #165584 -- Joey Hess Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:51:51 -0400 alien (8.20) unstable; urgency=low * Added support inspired by aj for converted rpm packages that create users/groups in their preinst, and which alien therefore cannot ship the files with proper ownerships in the .deb. In this case alien will now insert appropriate chown commands into the postinst script of the converted package. * That only works when converting rpm to deb, not the other way around, for now. * Removed the cpio directory permissions fixup code, which was probably broken, and is obsolete since I get directory perms from the rpm now. -- Joey Hess Sun, 25 Aug 2002 15:17:57 -0400 alien (8.19) unstable; urgency=low * Added upsated jdk patches from Gerald Turner. * Allow fallback to different debian revisions w/o --anypatch. * Add a changelog parser so I can work out the built version of a package. Ugh. Closes: #157971 -- Joey Hess Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:58:36 -0400 alien (8.18) unstable; urgency=low * Be stricter about which patch files to apply by default. For old behavior use --anypatch. * Minor perl 5.8 fix. -- Joey Hess Thu, 22 Aug 2002 12:10:39 -0400 alien (8.17) unstable; urgency=low * When converting from rpm, do parent directory 755 chmods first, then known permissions setting from rpm --queryformat, so that it can override any directories that do indeed have a permission set. * Fixed MakeFile.PL to work with perl 5.8. -- Joey Hess Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:49:04 -0400 alien (8.16) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed rpm unpacking. -- Joey Hess Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:35:06 -0400 alien (8.15) unstable; urgency=low * Fix a longstanding bug I was only recently told about: When converting from rpm, ignore the icky file owners and perms from the cpio archive, and query rpm for the real set that it overrides in the control data structure. Closes: #151546 -- Joey Hess Mon, 8 Jul 2002 21:03:16 -0400 alien (8.14) unstable; urgency=low * Enabled Getopt::Long Bundling, see comment in alien.pl. Closes: #152148 -- Joey Hess Sun, 7 Jul 2002 16:40:07 -0400 alien (8.13) unstable; urgency=low * Made tgz version parsing greedier so it will match sub-versions. -- Joey Hess Sat, 6 Jul 2002 08:05:45 -0400 alien (8.12) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed slp conversion to not use uninitialized value. Closes: #150840 -- Joey Hess Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:20:51 -0400 alien (8.11) unstable; urgency=low * Fix for extracting control files from debs on systems w/o dpkg-deb. Don't try to extract "file", just "./file". -- Joey Hess Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:34:09 -0400 alien (8.10) unstable; urgency=low * Build alien with debhelper v4. -- Joey Hess Sat, 1 Jun 2002 17:56:52 -0400 alien (8.09) unstable; urgency=low * Deal with packages with strange characters in their filenames. Closes: #146017 -- Joey Hess Thu, 23 May 2002 22:35:25 -0400 alien (8.08) unstable; urgency=low * Gerald Turner contributed a .diff file for conversion of the j2sdk (Java 2 Software Development Kit) -- Joey Hess Wed, 22 May 2002 20:07:41 -0400 alien (8.07) unstable; urgency=low * Added --test parameter, Closes: #145520 -- Joey Hess Thu, 2 May 2002 20:03:21 -0400 alien (8.06) unstable; urgency=low * Added --fixperms option. Closes: #142850 -- Joey Hess Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:19:12 -0400 alien (8.05) unstable; urgency=low * Support rpms with a description consisting of just blank lines. -- Joey Hess Mon, 1 Apr 2002 13:36:45 -0500 alien (8.04) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed an unfortunate typo in Rpm.pm, Closes: #140742 -- Joey Hess Sun, 31 Mar 2002 23:05:30 -0500 alien (8.03) unstable; urgency=low * Should avoid warning message, Closes: #140286 * README and description updates. -- Joey Hess Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:27:10 -0500 alien (8.02) unstable; urgency=low * Made more robust in the face of empty rpms. Closes: #138969 -- Joey Hess Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:29:23 -0500 alien (8.01) unstable; urgency=low * The "vmware and dpkg on drugs" release. * If a preinstall script in a rpm starts like this: # BEGINNING_OF_POST_DOT_SH #!/bin/sh Add anther hashbang at the top, so dpkg doesn't croak on it. Closes: #137032 -- Joey Hess Wed, 6 Mar 2002 12:57:06 -0500 alien (8.00) unstable; urgency=low * LSB package support. It can generate LSB packages (not guarenteed fully conformant with the LSB), and it can take LSB packages and convert them into other formats. Unlike all the other conversions, lsb packages's dependancy (on lsb) and their package scripts are preserved in the generated packages (when allowed by the target package format). This means your distribution will need to have a package named 'lsb' for the result to be installable. (Debian will have one soon..) * Suggest rpm-lsb, which is the preferred rpm to build lsb packages with. Use it if it's present, plain old rpm otherwise. -- Joey Hess Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:55:42 -0500 alien (7.32) unstable; urgency=low * Support ancient (bo-era) debs with upper-case field names. Closes: #130736 -- Joey Hess Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:38:57 -0500 alien (7.31) unstable; urgency=low * Use --target noarch instead of --target=noarch when building rpms. The latter used to work, but no longer does, due to some change in rpm or popt. It also has to come after the -bb. * Trap stderr of rpm and debian/rules building packages, and only display if the build fails. -- Joey Hess Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:53:04 -0500 alien (7.30) unstable; urgency=low * Thanks to the excellent work of Mark A. Hershberger , alien now supports converting to and from Solaris "pkg" packages (which are really SysV packages). You probably need to run it on Solaris for this to work, though. This brings the number of possible conversions alien can do up from 12 to a monstrous 20! * Mark also had to patch Deb.pm a bit so the by-hand deb extraction could 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 FHS compliance: /usr/man => /usr/share/man /usr/info => /usr/share/info /usr/doc' => /usr/share/doc * Also moves files as follows, to avoid possibly confusing dpkg with installing over symlinks (?). Closes: #40012 /usr/bin/X11 should be /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/lib/X11 should be /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 /usr/include/X11 should be /usr/X11R6/include/X11 * Reverse these moves in the cleantree stage. * Debian users who have installed alien packages in the past may want to re-convert and reinstall them, to take advantage of the new FHS conversions. -- Joey Hess Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:53:33 -0400 alien (7.27) unstable; urgency=low * Moved as many system calls as I can over to shellless execution. There are still a lot that use shell tricks. Should deal with screwey rpms and file names better though. Closes: #105283 * Display build logs after build failures. -- Joey Hess Sun, 15 Jul 2001 10:16:20 -0400 alien (7.25) unstable; urgency=low * Treat 'armv4l' arch rpm's as arm architecture. -- Joey Hess Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:40:20 -0400 alien (7.24) unstable; urgency=low * Patch from Raul Miller to make it use gzip -dc | tar everywhere it used to use tar zxvf. The problem with the latter is that, on Red Hat anyway, when tar is reading from stdin, tar or gzip seems to be broken, and tar does not see an end-of-file marker, causing alien to hang when converting rpms to debs. Closes: #96200 -- Joey Hess Wed, 9 May 2001 11:09:16 -0400 alien (7.23) unstable; urgency=low * Moved files out of perl privlib, Closes: #95512 -- Joey Hess Sat, 28 Apr 2001 23:15:18 -0400 alien (7.22) unstable; urgency=low * Modification to match changes in rpm 4's parser; need to use --target=noarch, rather than --target noarch. -- Joey Hess Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:43:56 -0700 alien (7.21) unstable; urgency=low * Deal with empty /etc/mailname, Closes: #90727 -- Joey Hess Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:19:17 -0800 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 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). -- Joey Hess Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:33:07 -0800 alien (7.18) unstable; urgency=low * Build with debhelper v3. -- Joey Hess Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:58:55 -0800 alien (7.17) unstable; urgency=low * Munge in #!/bin/sh entries at the top of rpm maintainer scripts that appear to be shell scripts. Closes: #76124 -- Joey Hess Wed, 7 Feb 2001 18:58:56 -0800 alien (7.16) unstable; urgency=low * Updated motif patches again. -- Joey Hess Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:18:20 -0800 alien (7.15) unstable; urgency=low * Removed dh_suidregister call -- bitten my by own program! :-) Closes: #82230 -- Joey Hess Sun, 14 Jan 2001 14:12:49 -0800 alien (7.14) unstable; urgency=low * Added rpm spec file fix. -- Joey Hess Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:31:54 -0800 alien (7.13) unstable; urgency=low * Patch from Pavel Roskin for misc specfile issues, including nastly comppressed man page munging. * Updaed motif patches from Andreas Voegele . -- Joey Hess Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:15:41 -0800 alien (7.12) unstable; urgency=low * Modified Rpm.pm to not bother with the scripts stanzas if there are no scripts. -- Joey Hess Fri, 8 Dec 2000 14:50:51 -0800 alien (7.11) unstable; urgency=low * Use ls -1 instead of plain ls when copying files to debian/tmp in rpm conversion. Since that output is grep'ed, items might have been accidentually excuded before (although ls seems to output one file per line when run inside makefiles, probably because it notices it is not at a tty). Anyway, I had a report that there was a problem here, and this should fix it. -- Joey Hess Thu, 23 Nov 2000 13:02:52 -0800 alien (7.10) unstable; urgency=low * Use dh_perl for automatic, correct perl dependancies, Closes: #77669 -- Joey Hess Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:52:08 -0800 alien (7.9) unstable; urgency=low * Whoops, alien was still trying to use /usr/lib/alien/pactches, corrected. -- Joey Hess Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:59:04 -0800 alien (7.8) unstable; urgency=low * Use debhelper v2 for debian/rules, but not when converting packages to deb format. -- Joey Hess Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:36:25 -0700 alien (7.7) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected return code of system check. * Corrected logic error in relocatable rpm handling that was making converting such rpms not work. (Closes: #71155) -- Joey Hess Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:19:22 -0700 alien (7.6) unstable; urgency=low * Added a note about a sticky library dependancy issue that I can't fix. * Applied a patch from Chris Gorman to deal with spaces in directory names, spaces in conffile names (!!), and accented characters everywhere in deb -> rpm conversions. * Fixed numerous problems when converting from .deb w/o dpkg installed. * Fixed "2 files on 1 line" error when converting deb -> rpm. -- Joey Hess Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:12:08 -0700 alien (7.5) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed an uninitialized value when converting from a .src.rpm. -- Joey Hess Mon, 29 May 2000 21:42:38 -0700 alien (7.4) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected typo that broke Deb.pm, Closes: #64559 -- Joey Hess Tue, 23 May 2000 19:30:04 -0700 alien (7.3) unstable; urgency=low * Changed all invocations of programs to be in posix-complient form. Ie, no options after args, so people who set POSIX_ME_HARDER can still use alien. * Bahave better if there is no /etc/mailname. -- Joey Hess Mon, 22 May 2000 16:04:07 -0700 alien (7.2) unstable; urgency=low * 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 it many times for some directories before. * Fixed chmodding to use the correct path to the directory. This fixes file permissions in rpm's converted to other formats, a bug introduced at 7.0. * Fixed some undefined value warnings (which pointed out real but rare bugs). * Fixed a rare, but bad little bug. If you ran alien in a directory that had the suid/sgid bit set (as my home directory does), and generated debs and probably other formats, it generated packages with the root directory suid/sgid. -- Joey Hess Tue, 9 May 2000 14:13:15 -0700 alien (7.1) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected checking of system() in Deb::prep. Closes: #63396 -- Joey Hess Mon, 1 May 2000 19:42:01 -0700 alien (7.0) unstable; urgency=low * This is a fully rewritten version, now belived to be stable enough for a dot-0 release. -- Joey Hess Sat, 29 Apr 2000 23:27:24 -0700 alien (6.99999) unstable; urgency=low * I despise MakeMaker. -- Joey Hess Sun, 23 Apr 2000 21:44:05 -0700 alien (6.9999) unstable; urgency=low * Major typo fix in Tgz.pm. * Fixed newlines in tgz filelist. * Fixed some undefined value warnings. * Put the rpm spec file back in. Converting the debs to rpms fails because rpm doesn't use the same perl include path. Bummer. * Fixed duplicate alien man page problem. -- Joey Hess Sat, 22 Apr 2000 16:12:44 -0700 alien (6.99) unstable; urgency=low * The great rewrite. Alien is now based on pure object oriented package objects. These objects can read all relevant details about a package, and can generate packages based on that information. Thus, converting from one format to another becomes a simple matter of generating one of these objects, pointing it at a package, mutating it into the destination class, and telling it to write the new package out! A basic alien can now be written using these objects in one "line" of perl -- in fact, here is one: perl -MAlien::Package::Deb -MAlien::Package::Rpm -e ' $p=Alien::Package::Rpm->new(filename => shift); $p->unpack; bless($p, "Alien::Package::Deb"); $p->prep; $p->build' * Almost every line of code has been rewritten. * Package descriptions now include a note that they were converted with alien. There are other numerous changes to the converted packages, for instance, generated .deb's now have more info in their copyright file. * The template files were all moved inside the objects, which is actually cleaner and is certainly easier to deal with. * Usernames are now looked up the way POSIX intended. * alien.1 is now generated from POD docs. * Alien can now convert into multiple formats at once. * Alien now always cleans up after failed converts, Closes: #62331 * Alien can now be used to just install a package with no conversion. Closes: #53441 * Use a Makefile.PL because that seems to make sense, which means lots of the build system had to be changed. -- Joey Hess Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:52:41 -0700 alien (6.59) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed typo, Closes: #60424 -- Joey Hess Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:30:01 -0800 alien (6.58) unstable; urgency=low * Patch from Michael Barabanov to make -n work by preventing rpm from expanding stuff like %S in the uuencoded scripts. -- Joey Hess Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:39:07 -0800 alien (6.57) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected priority in control file to optional; ftp admins, please take note! This pakage has never belonged in extra.. -- Joey Hess Sat, 11 Mar 2000 04:08:05 -0800 alien (6.56) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected a problem triggered by wordperfect's deb: rpm can't deal with files that have spaces, unless they are quoted. Thus, quote all filenames. * Handles empty directories now when converting to rpm. -- Joey Hess Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:25:27 -0800 alien (6.55) unstable; urgency=low * Patch from Jan Nieuwenhuizen to fix control file extraction on non-debian systems. Not for frozen. -- Joey Hess Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:45:31 -0800 alien (6.54) unstable; urgency=low * Added metrolink motif diffs from Andreas Voegele -- Joey Hess Mon, 3 Jan 2000 13:57:47 -0800 alien (6.53) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed the problem I thought I fixed in 6.50. Hmm. Closes: #52402 -- Joey Hess Fri, 10 Dec 1999 10:21:43 -0800 alien (6.52) unstable; urgency=low * Added (very simple) build dep. -- Joey Hess Fri, 3 Dec 1999 23:34:10 -0800 alien (6.51) unstable; urgency=low * Fixes to my build system. -- Joey Hess Wed, 1 Dec 1999 14:19:52 -0800 alien (6.50) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed problem with relocatable packages, and probably several other unrelated problems that were introduced last version. -- Joey Hess Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:52:55 -0800 alien (6.49) unstable; urgency=low * Removed an obsolete note from the man page. * Set locale to C while using rpm to pick at the .rpm file we are going to convert, Closes: #42282 * Moved /usr/lib/alien to /usr/share/alien * Added --nopatch option, Closes: #47069 -- Joey Hess Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:42:00 -0800 alien (6.48) unstable; urgency=low * Patch from Benjamin Cant to make it work even if there is no space after control file lines in a debian package. -- Joey Hess Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:41:59 -0700 alien (6.47) unstable; urgency=low * Now FHS compliant. But the packages it builds will probably not be.. -- Joey Hess Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:25:01 -0700 alien (6.46) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed alien.slp file generation. -- Joey Hess Sat, 4 Sep 1999 23:49:10 -0700 alien (6.45) unstable; urgency=low * Checked into cvs. Added a fixlinks script to generate all symlinks. * Integrated into my build system for automatic home page updates. -- Joey Hess Sat, 4 Sep 1999 23:17:50 -0700 alien (6.44) unstable; urgency=low * Depend on cpio. It is used in the rpm unpack phase after all, since alien uses rpm2cpio (Closes: #38969) -- Joey Hess Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:15:38 -0700 alien (6.43) unstable; urgency=low * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it seems to make sense for the transition. -- Joey Hess Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:57:20 -0700 alien (6.42) unstable; urgency=low * Don't call dh_fixperms. As bug #36700 points out, some things you'll want to convert have odd permissions intentionally. I suppose this change will make a lot of stuff that has odd permissions accidentially come through with bad perms, but that's life.. -- Joey Hess Mon, 28 Jun 1999 15:51:37 -0700 alien (6.41) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed the makefile so it doesn't keep files owned by 500.500. * --version, -v works. -- Joey Hess Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:30:22 -0700 alien (6.40) unstable; urgency=low * D'oh corrected powerpc problem. -- Joey Hess Wed, 16 Jun 1999 10:41:46 -0700 alien (6.39) unstable; urgency=low * When converting from rpm, ppc -> powerpc (Closes: #39550), patch by Chris Lawrence -- Joey Hess Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:12:03 -0700 alien (6.38) unstable; urgency=low * Disable localization when getting the rpm --version output. -- Joey Hess Thu, 20 May 1999 14:55:29 -0700 alien (6.37) unstable; urgency=low * If the package that is being made into a deb has a release with no number in it, dpkg-deb barfs, so add "-1" to the release in that case. (#3755) -- Joey Hess Sun, 16 May 1999 17:44:01 -0700 alien (6.36) unstable; urgency=low * Updated XBF-i740 xserver diff. -- Joey Hess Wed, 5 May 1999 13:44:03 -0700 alien (6.35) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed rpm minor version test. -- Joey Hess Mon, 3 May 1999 13:35:18 -0700 alien (6.34) unstable; urgency=low * Adjusted the rpm version test - rpm 2.92 and above need --target. -- Joey Hess Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:04:03 -0700 alien (6.33) unstable; urgency=low * Fixes for rpm 3.0: - 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. - Detect rpm version and use --target or --buildarch appropriatly. - Fixed alien.rpm's own build process to work again (stupid macro substitutions...). -- Joey Hess Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:20:27 -0700 alien (6.32) unstable; urgency=low * Dropped in diff files for the XBF-i740 xserver, thanks to Agustin Martin -- Joey Hess Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:57:54 -0700 alien (6.31) unstable; urgency=low * Actually included the fixed file to make the relocatrable packages work. -- Joey Hess Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:14:27 -0700 alien (6.30) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed applix 4.4.1 menu. * Fixed a problem with converting relocatable packages that contained the directory they claimed they could relocate into. This fixes the problem someone was having converting a Glide rpm - I forget who. -- Joey Hess Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:02:53 -0700 alien (6.29) unstable; urgency=low * You don't need to be root to run alien -g or alien -s, so disabled the check there. * Removed extraneous install -d in debian/rules template file. * Added support for applix 4.4.1. * Fixed patch support, it's been broken. -- Joey Hess Wed, 7 Apr 1999 19:43:51 -0700 alien (6.28) unstable; urgency=low * 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. -- Joey Hess Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:28:41 -0800 alien (6.27) unstable; urgency=low * Depends on debhelper >= 0.88 so it can use -X option. -- Joey Hess Sun, 27 Dec 1998 21:00:36 -0800 alien (6.26) unstable; urgency=low * If 822-date fails, the error now suggests installing dpkg-dev. This is way up there in the alien faw and I'm tired of answering it. -- Joey Hess Mon, 7 Dec 1998 19:02:26 -0800 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 . * Typo fix from Roman Shterenzon. * 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. -- Joey Hess Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:12:10 -0800 alien (6.24) unstable; urgency=low * I hope this will work with i586.deb files. -- Joey Hess Wed, 25 Nov 1998 21:19:19 -0800 alien (6.23) unstable; urgency=low * It seems perl 5.003 breaks alien, so I set up dependancies on 5.004, and updated documentation accordingly. -- Joey Hess Tue, 24 Nov 1998 00:26:21 -0800 alien (6.22) unstable; urgency=low * Updated urls to the alien-extra stuff, it's now hosted on Bruce S. Babcock's machine. -- Joey Hess Tue, 24 Nov 1998 00:04:53 -0800 alien (6.21) unstable; urgency=low * Exclude .Z files from compression by dh_compress when converting to .deb package. -- Joey Hess Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:54:01 -0800 alien (6.20) unstable; urgency=low * Convert tar.Z files too. -- Joey Hess Wed, 18 Nov 1998 19:32:13 -0800 alien (6.19) unstable; urgency=low * Don't fail even if dh_shlibdeps fails. -- Joey Hess Sun, 1 Nov 1998 21:44:32 -0800 alien (6.18) unstable; urgency=low * Hack so it'll work on packages where the upstream version doesn't contain any digets. -- Joey Hess Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:06:13 -0700 alien (6.17) unstable; urgency=low * Rebuilt with debhelper 1.1.15 so that patches arn't installed as man pages. -- Joey Hess Mon, 31 Aug 1998 13:31:56 -0700 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 guess as any. This will let people use the conversion on other architectures. (#26253). -- Joey Hess Sun, 30 Aug 1998 21:57:39 -0700 alien (6.15) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed a bug converting slp -> rpm, where filenames in the generated filelist didn't start with "/". -- Joey Hess Mon, 17 Aug 1998 15:39:31 -0700 alien (6.14) unstable; urgency=low * Die early if converting to a .deb and not root. Debhelper command will cause it to die later on, anyway. (#25775) -- Joey Hess Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:45:38 -0700 alien (6.13) unstable; urgency=low * Don't bother calling dh_strip when converting to a .deb. This has caused more trouble than it's worth. -- Joey Hess Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:13:50 -0700 alien (6.12) unstable; urgency=low * Will now properly convert rpm's that have things like + in their name. (#25656). -- Joey Hess Wed, 12 Aug 1998 15:09:30 -0700 alien (6.11) unstable; urgency=low * There was a problem converting rpm packages to tgz and slp formats (and to a much lesser degree converting them to dpkg format): any parent directories that were not in the rpm, but did have children in the rpm, would end up with bad permissions (700). Alien now does a smart scan to detect this and changes the permissions to a more sane 755. * When converting to slp or tgz, with -g or -s, output informative message, same as when converting to rpm or deb. -- Joey Hess Sat, 20 Jun 1998 21:06:37 -0700 alien (6.10) unstable; urgency=low * Remove a junk file that crept in in the last version. -- Joey Hess Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:00:32 -0700 alien (6.09) unstable; urgency=low * Added a short document on how to generate a diff file for use by alien. * Fixed a security hole in alien generated rpm files that had scripts in them, that could allow a user to clobber files on the filesystem. Any such alien generated rpm files currently in existence already contain this bug, so be careful with them. Such files should be rare, they have 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 now. * It used to be that only shell scripts could be converted to rpm format, because of a stupid bug. Fixed. * There has been a change in how rpm outputs the file list for a relocatable package - it used to strip the prefix from each filename, and I could get at it in the DEFAULTPREFIX tag. Now it doesn't, and that tag doesn't exist. The only change I actually had to make was to make alien send rpm's error about DEFAULTPREFIX not being a valid tag to /dev/null. All the code for dealing with DEFAULTPREFIX has been left in, for backwards compatability. -- Joey Hess Wed, 10 Jun 1998 14:33:17 -0500 alien (6.08) unstable; urgency=low * Automatic installation of .tgz and .rpm files was broken. * Removed yet another use of tar -I. * Generated .slp files now properly contain filenames all starting with "./", just like normal Stampede packages. -- Joey Hess Sat, 9 May 1998 14:28:54 -0700 alien (6.07) unstable; urgency=low * New alien-extra's are available; updated the README to point to them. -- Joey Hess Fri, 8 May 1998 23:01:37 -0700 alien (6.06) unstable; urgency=low * Noted in README that you need bzip2 for stampede conversions. * For compatability with non-debian systems, don't use tar -I, pipe bzip2, instead. * Fixed Toslp.pm to generate slp packages with the correct BINFORMAT settings. -- Joey Hess Thu, 7 May 1998 16:36:48 -0700 alien (6.05) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed -k switch (#22168). -- Joey Hess Wed, 6 May 1998 12:22:02 -0700 alien (6.04) unstable; urgency=low * Added support for generating slp packages -- alien is now capable of 16 different types of conversions! * Cleaned up some of Fromslp.pm. * Added support for converting from .slp packages that use .gz compression, as well as .bz2. * Still TODO: handling postinst script when converting to/from .slp packages. * Updated Makefile to build .slp package of alien too, it will now appear on alien's homepage. -- Joey Hess Sun, 3 May 1998 12:35:45 -0700 alien (6.03) unstable; urgency=low * Added support for converting from v5 Stampede linux packages. Still a little rough and mostly untested. * Note that though the documentation says it can convert to Stampede packages as well, this isn't implemented yet. But I wanted to get a snapshot of my work so far out for testing by the Stampede people. * Changed hard links back to symlinks. * Got rid of standards-version in the created .deb files, that was stilly to have in there. * Standardized warnings. * Fixed some documentation. -- Joey Hess Sat, 2 May 1998 21:25:05 -0700 alien (6.02) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Fixed typo in README (#21126). -- Joey Hess Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:25:17 -0700 alien (6.01) frozen unstable; urgency=low * alien -i was broken, now fixed. -- Joey Hess Thu, 9 Apr 1998 19:03:38 -0700 alien (6.00) unstable; urgency=low * Changed the module interface to be much cleaner. Probably broke many things in the process. * use strict throughout. * It is now possible to do multiple conversions with a single run of alien. * Reworked the rules file used to convert to a debian package so it uses debhelper. Alien no longer uses debstd at all. Adjusted dependancies accordingly. -- Joey Hess Sun, 8 Mar 1998 16:22:50 -0800 alien (5.21) unstable; urgency=low * Updated standards-version. * Fixed how it handles symlinks so the kernel 2.1.8x symlink bug doesn't prevent the package from building, by using hardlinks instead. -- Joey Hess Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:39:49 -0800 alien (5.20) unstable; urgency=low * added --description= flag, that lets the description of slackware packages be set. * Put packages converted to .deb format into a section called "alien". * s/kite.ml.org/kitenet.net/g -- Joey Hess Sun, 23 Nov 1997 18:05:14 -0500 alien (5.19) unstable; urgency=low * Applied fix to preserve modification time when converting from rpm format. Thanks to Oberhumer Markus * Modified lsm to place alien into /pub/Linux/utils/packages. * Added md5sums file back in. -- Joey Hess Mon, 20 Oct 1997 22:30:29 -0400 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 can now handle old format deb files. -- Joey Hess Sat, 27 Sep 1997 15:52:08 -0400 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 release number/debian version number. * Man page fixups. * Fixes for epochs (for now, just remove epochs, since rpm cannot handle them.) -- Joey Hess Fri, 12 Sep 1997 13:08:03 -0400 alien (5.16) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed binary-indep target. -- Joey Hess Thu, 4 Sep 1997 18:33:18 -0400 alien (5.15) unstable; urgency=low * Exit with an understandable error if we can't write to the pwd. * Standardized error messages. -- Joey Hess Sat, 30 Aug 1997 20:20:18 -0400 alien (5.14) unstable; urgency=low * Reccommend rpm >= 2.4.4-2, so noarch works, and /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/ and /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/{noarch,} exist. Fixes #12220 and #12218. * Escape out variables in m// and s/// operators, fixes Bug #12219. -- Joey Hess Fri, 22 Aug 1997 12:31:06 -0400 alien (5.13) unstable; urgency=low * 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: Fakeroot and sudo fixes (#11325). -- Joey Hess Sat, 26 Jul 1997 21:24:49 -0400 alien (5.12) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed problem converting tgz files that contained files in the install/ directory into rpm. * Ok, I'll announce this version to cola, instead of 5.11.. * Updated .lsm description. -- Joey Hess Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:26:13 -0400 alien (5.11) unstable; urgency=low * Announce on cola again. * Added noarch support into alien. * Changed rpm package to noarch version. * Other fixes to spec file. * Routine update of debian/rules: Only run sudo when really necessary - makes fakeroot work. -- Joey Hess Wed, 9 Jul 1997 20:58:56 -0400 alien (5.10) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed an error in rpm package - all symlinks were being omitted from the package. -- Joey Hess Thu, 26 Jun 1997 18:23:53 -0400 alien (5.9) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed stupid ugly bug in last version. "=~ tr" and "= ~tr" are very different things! * Reorganized some of the code. -- Joey Hess Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:57:38 -0400 alien (5.8) unstable; urgency=low * Rpm doesn't like version numbers that contain dashes, so change to underscores when converting to rpm. Thanks to Arne Elofsson. * Added some examples to the man page. -- Joey Hess Sun, 22 Jun 1997 23:05:51 -0400 alien (5.7) unstable; urgency=low * Use installpkg to install slackware packages. -- Joey Hess Tue, 3 Jun 1997 17:55:51 -0400 alien (5.6) unstable; urgency=low * For slackware systems: added docs to README about alien-extra slackware package. * For redhat systems: include CHANGES, COPYING, lsm file in alien.rpm. -- Joey Hess Mon, 2 Jun 1997 13:06:40 -0400 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 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.. -- Joey Hess Sat, 31 May 1997 17:31:26 -0400 alien (5.4) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed a bug that occurred if the full name field in the password file was empty, and ypmatch was installed. * Fixed another bug, that occurred if NIS is actually being used, where alien hung forever. * For non-debian systems, fix upgrades. -- Joey Hess Mon, 26 May 1997 20:01:03 -0400 alien (5.3) unstable; urgency=low * For non-debian systems: falls back to the hostname if /etc/mailname isn't set -- Joey Hess Sun, 25 May 1997 19:50:07 -0400 alien (5.2) unstable; urgency=low * Turns out alien has been broken for processing slackware packages since version 3.0. It was leaving an /install directory behind. Fixed this. -- Joey Hess Tue, 20 May 1997 21:10:50 -0400 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 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. * Smarter guessing of patch file name to use, now looks at version number and revision number if neccessary. * Added a patch file for applix 4.3 (and one for the applix-english package). -- Joey Hess Thu, 15 May 1997 18:35:46 -0400 alien (5.0) unstable; urgency=low * Added some cautions to man page about not using alien to replace important packages. * This version will be released to the linux community at large, not just debian. * Added a README file. -- Joey Hess Wed, 7 May 1997 16:02:53 -0400 alien (4.3) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed a bug that made alien choke on packages that had 0 for their release or version number. * Removed obsolete alien.sh from the source package. -- Joey Hess Wed, 7 May 1997 15:17:33 -0400 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 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. -- Joey Hess Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:03:27 -0400 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 Robert Coie * Strip out any other disallowed characters in package name when converting to deb. -- Joey Hess Fri, 4 Apr 1997 20:12:07 -0500 alien (4.00) unstable; urgency=low * Added support for converting deb to rpm, based on the "martian" program by Randolph Chung . * Huge reorganization, rewrite, and code cleanup. * As a side effect of the above, alien can also convert tgz into rpm now. * Use rpm -qcp to list conffiles from rpm files. * Reworked how conffiles are found from tar files. * Removed --noinstall option, changed alien to default to not installing generated packages, added --install option to make it install packages. * Removed --nopatch/--auto option, and changed patch lookup behavior. See the man page for an explination of the new behavior. * Now Recommends: dpkg-dev and make and Suggests: patch * Dropped feature of making slackware package install scripts into 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 number. -- Joey Hess Sat, 29 Mar 1997 21:49:30 -0500 alien (3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Fixed bug that was preventing alien from figuring out the version number of a tar file. (#8284) * Man page fixes, related to #8284. * Fixed a bug, present since 3.0, which was messing up conffile detection. * Removed README.debian. (It just pointed users to the man page, which is rather pointless.) -- Joey Hess Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:03:04 -0500 alien (3.1) unstable; urgency=low * Force package names to lowercase. * Fixed --noinstall option. -- Joey Hess Mon, 17 Mar 1997 18:35:46 -0500 alien (3.00) unstable; urgency=low * Rewrote alien in perl. * Command line options can be specified in any order. * -ppatch will no longer work. use --patch= instead. * Improved usage help. * Include extended description from rpm, if available. * Fixed a bug with descriptions/summaries/changelogs/copyrights on rpms that contained the '/' character crashing alien. * Increment revision number of rpms when they are alianized. * Recommends: cpio becuase it is needed for rpm2cpio extraction. * Patch files do not have to be compressed. * Routine update of debian/rules: Clean up junk files in subdirs. -- Joey Hess Fri, 7 Mar 1997 16:08:02 -0500 alien (2.82) unstable; urgency=low * Use CHANGELOGTEXT, not CHANGELOG, when querying rpm files for changelogs. Fixes bug #7445. * Modification to work with rpm verison 2.3.7. This breaks compatability with previous versions of rpm. Modified control file to reflect this. -- Joey Hess Tue, 25 Feb 1997 21:09:18 -0500 alien (2.81) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected maintainer in debian/control. * Routine update of debian/rules: Modifications for multiple binary package support. -- Joey Hess Fri, 7 Feb 1997 22:25:40 -0500 alien (2.80) unstable; urgency=low * Added a patch file for Applixware. * I'm looking for patch files for other commercial software, to add to the package. If you own commerical linux software and would like to contribute a patch, please contact me. * Generated debian/rules files will no longer pass package name to debstd (And neither does the debian/rules file for this package.) * Added -s switch for low disk space situations. * Added -i switch to build a package but not install it. * Added long options (--option), as I can never remember the short ones. * 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 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. * Rewrote the code that figures out information about the rpm files so it uses rpm --queryformat to determine everything. * If a rpm has a changelog, add it to the end of debian/changelog. * Add summary to the Description: field of generated control files. * Add info from a rpm's copyright field to to the copyright file. -- Joey Hess Thu, 30 Jan 1997 20:35:10 -0500 alien (2.79) unstable; urgency=low * New maintainer. * Updated man page with new author info. * Changes to debian/rules to make current maintainer more comfortable. * Improvements to follow when I find the time.. -- Joey Hess Mon, 27 Jan 1997 20:54:47 -0500 alien (2.78) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected Priority * Cleanup debmake remnants -- Christoph Lameter Sat, 25 Jan 1997 10:51:48 -0800 alien (2.77) unstable; urgency=low * alien source package completely split off from debmake. Looking for a new maintainer to provide some fresh ideas. -- Christoph Lameter Sat, 25 Jan 1997 10:23:21 -0800 debmake (2.76) unstable; urgency=low * debstd: Multi-binary support: Generate necessary subdirectories on the fly from files names subpackage.filename (if such files exist) to comply with Policy. This results in an alternate way of storing files for sub-package generation. Remember to erase those directories in the rules file if using this scheme! -- Christoph Lameter Sat, 25 Jan 1997 09:04:21 -0800 debmake (2.75) unstable; urgency=low * debchange: Fix bug introduced in 2.74 * debstd: support for configure script * adpkg: support for package configuration before installation -- Christoph Lameter Fri, 24 Jan 1997 13:17:49 -0800 debmake (2.74) unstable; urgency=low * debstd: Output warning if scripts do not use /bin/sh as its interpreter #6062 * bug: default to ae editor if joe is not present #5675, #6811 * debchange: default to ae editor if joe is not present #6794 -- Christoph Lameter Thu, 23 Jan 1997 21:47:39 -0800 debmake (2.73) unstable; urgency=low * made dependant on perl * Description in control file updated * debchange: automatically rename native debian package directories on generating the next version. Fixes some problems with warnings at package generation time. * alien: some minor fixes update of manpage. * Document nodeps option of debstd * Fixes to the way uupdate recognizes new version numbers (again!) -- Christoph Lameter Mon, 20 Jan 1997 19:51:11 -0800 debmake (2.72) unstable; urgency=low * Fix Bug #6690: release not able to handle multiple bug numbers. * Fix Bug #6669 * debstd: check for debian/changelog and abort if not found -- Christoph Lameter Sat, 18 Jan 1997 09:24:43 -0800 debmake (2.71) unstable; urgency=low * adpkg: support for virtual package recognition * lots of fixes to adpkg. Add functionality to figure out which installed packages need to be updated. Rudimentary replacement for dselect. * Fix to init.d template -- Christoph Lameter Fri, 17 Jan 1997 20:24:11 -0800 debmake (2.70) unstable; urgency=low * new tool: adpkg a front end to dpkg which will install all depending packages, locate packages on its own and install packages one by one in order to insure minimum downtime for daemons on mission critical servers. * bug: give a correct errormessage if packagename not specified instead of failing with a shell error. -- Christoph Lameter Fri, 17 Jan 1997 15:40:01 -0800 debmake (2.62) unstable; urgency=low * Sue Campbell contributes a HOWTO.first_time * new tools: todo and done by Hakan Ardo * Automatically install a debian/TODO if present -- Christoph Lameter Thu, 16 Jan 1997 22:07:10 -0800 debmake (2.61) unstable; urgency=low * debstd: fix recognition of .so in manpages -- Christoph Lameter Thu, 16 Jan 1997 09:18:26 -0800 debmake (2.60) unstable; urgency=low * new tools: deb2asc, asc2deb and asc2debinst allowing the conversion and easy modification of already packed up debian packages. Also allows writing of packages with an editor. asc2debinst does not yet work as intended. * release: change Bug number matching to match #[0-9]{4,5}. -- Christoph Lameter Tue, 14 Jan 1997 10:02:07 -0800 debmake (2.59) unstable; urgency=low * release: update manpage. * release: bug clearing did not work right... sigh.... -- Christoph Lameter Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:28:59 -0800 debmake (2.58) unstable; urgency=low * release: Check for Bug# in changes files and ask maintainer if these bugs ought to be cleared. (Test Bug#4711) * debstd: 2.57 broke library scan functionality * uupdate: allow + characters in upstream packagename -- Christoph Lameter Mon, 13 Jan 1997 21:08:03 -0800 debmake (2.57) unstable; urgency=low * bug: Bug#5619 treat conffiles without \n at the end correctly * debstd: install maintainer generated shlibs file. Skip Library scan for that case * better directory name matching when looking for undocumented binaries. * link to undocumented.7.gz instead of undoc.7 -- Christoph Lameter Sat, 11 Jan 1997 21:15:27 -0800 debmake (2.56) unstable; urgency=low * bug: -z option added to forbid removal of comments and empty lines from configfiles. * debstd: look for manpages also in /usr/X11R6/man -- Christoph Lameter Thu, 9 Jan 1997 07:35:10 -0800 debmake (2.55) unstable; urgency=low * deb-make: Support specialities for native packages (such as copyright file for example) * debstd: reverse function of the -u option. Default is now no symlinks for undocumented binaries. * build: allow passing of options to dpkg-buildpackage * patch of Roman Hodek for some problems in debstd -- Christoph Lameter Tue, 7 Jan 1997 10:49:19 -0800 debmake (2.54) unstable; urgency=low * debstd: Wrong warnings about a package not having executables fixed * two packages bug and alien split out from debmake. Dependencies reworked. * debstd: recognize games as a valid location for binaries and put links into section 6 for those binaries. * deb-make: fix to package name parsing * bug: Christian Schwarz: Ability to redirect bug report to stdout. * deb-make: Fix to document recognition by Christian Schwarz * uupdate: Diagnostics for existing original archives -- Christoph Lameter Sun, 5 Jan 1997 21:17:23 -0800 debmake (2.53) unstable; urgency=low * made a template from Lars example manpage for debian. Thanks! template will be customized with packagename, emailname, maintainername * uupdate: Fix version number recognition for tar files. -- Christoph Lameter Sun, 5 Jan 1997 18:46:16 -0800 debmake (2.52) unstable; urgency=low * uupdate: Fixes to the way the upstream version is recognized * uupdate: Figure out the new upstream version from patchname. * uupdate: Fixes to allow using a patch rather than a new archive. * uupdate: clean archive before patching it. -- Christoph Lameter Thu, 2 Jan 1997 20:14:41 -0800 debmake (2.51) unstable; urgency=low * debstd: sometimes the associated manpage to a binary was not found and an undocumented.7 link installed despite of the presence of a manpage! * debstd: if first parameter was not the package name that documentation file was not installed. * deb-make: Better matching for documentation -- Christoph Lameter Wed, 1 Jan 1997 17:40:54 -0800 debmake (2.50) unstable; urgency=low * deb-make: probe for common forms of documentation in a sourcecode package and generate a rules file to install those by default. * debian/rules templates updated to reflect changes. * debstd: generate /usr/doc/package/changelog for native packages * debstd: does not need packagename anymore on invocation * debstd: Generate manpage symlinks for executables without corresponding manpages. * debchange: Fix bug #6380. * changelog fixed to spell Santiago's name correctly etc. -- Christoph Lameter Wed, 1 Jan 1997 13:12:11 -0800 debmake (2.41) unstable; urgency=low * Check for /etc/suid.conf instead for /usr/bin/suidregister for suid binaries to avoid pre-dependency problems for suidmanager. * strip -g only for libraries instead of a full strip (Santiago Vila) * Changes to the rules template according to suggestion by Santiago Vila. -- Christoph Lameter Sun, 29 Dec 1996 12:43:11 -0800 debmake (2.40) unstable; urgency=low * uscan watch template provided. * new tool uscan: Scan upstream ftp sites for new releases and then dowload upstream releases, perform upstream update (using "uupdate"), rebuild package(s) (using "build") and upload new package (using "release") (Actions customizable, full automatic operation discouraged). Experimental status right now. -- Christoph Lameter Wed, 25 Dec 1996 12:06:32 -0800 debmake (2.30) unstable; urgency=low * debchange: -v option to set the version number provided * new tool uupdate: automatize upstream updates for sourcecode packages -- Christoph Lameter Tue, 24 Dec 1996 22:33:02 -0800 debmake (2.21) unstable; urgency=low * debstd: shlib generation: .shlibs file does not belong into -dev package as previously claimed. .shlibs file put into library package restoring what previous versions of debmake did. The versions 2.17-2.20 produced unusable .shlibs files! -- Christoph Lameter Mon, 23 Dec 1996 19:59:16 -0800 debmake (2.20) unstable; urgency=low * debstd: examples / docs documents were moved with directory. * Bug in inetd.conf postrm handling -- Christoph Lameter Sun, 22 Dec 1996 16:26:32 -0800 debmake (2.19) unstable; urgency=low * example .forward file for the exim mailer provided * debstd: diversions set the wrong package name * build: use gid=0 when building packages to avoid generating wrong ownerships. -- Christoph Lameter Thu, 19 Dec 1996 10:17:33 -0800 debmake (2.18) unstable; urgency=low * check dependencies of provided sharable libraries in addition to executables when calling dpkg-shlibdeps for a package. * info.ex: wrong spelling * debstd: manpage updated. * debstd: generate a changelog entry if debian/RELEASED is present. * shlibs management cleaned up. -- Christoph Lameter Mon, 16 Dec 1996 22:21:56 -0800 debmake (2.17) unstable; urgency=low * deb-make: add capability to copy sample libraries. Samples for multi-binary and library revised. * If first documentation file for debstd has "change" in its name install that file as changelog.upstream (according to standard). Please be sure in the future to list the upstream changelog first after the package name * Changed Library Templates according to Guy's advice -- Christoph Lameter Mon, 16 Dec 1996 21:14:56 -0800 debmake (2.16) unstable; urgency=low * Library link for library.so was not generated. * Message regarding tar of debstd cleaned up. -- Christoph Lameter Mon, 16 Dec 1996 10:02:40 -0800 debmake (2.15) unstable; urgency=low * added instruction regarding tar problem * .shlibs file not correctly generated (Major Number screwed up) -- Christoph Lameter Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:01:43 -0800 debmake (2.14) unstable; urgency=low * deb-make asks for the type of package (single,multi,library) to generate and does not clutter the debian directory so much with .ex files. * Templates updated to use easier method for generating directories through a "dirs" file in the debian directory listing all necessary directories. * Incorrect menu template * Update Standards number to current -- Christoph Lameter Sat, 14 Dec 1996 18:08:03 -0800 debmake (2.13) unstable; urgency=low * debstd: bug in processing of menus * deb-make gave an errormessage about not finding a file. Did not affect functionality. -- Christoph Lameter Sat, 14 Dec 1996 10:04:50 -0800 debmake (2.12) unstable; urgency=low * Prototype for library rules simplified * debstd: strip static libraries * debstd: automatically generate symlinks for sharable elf libraries -- Christoph Lameter Sat, 14 Dec 1996 04:25:14 -0800 debmake (2.11) unstable; urgency=low * Automatically strip libraries found. * Prototypes provided for ELF Library development -- Christoph Lameter Fri, 13 Dec 1996 21:08:32 -0800 debmake (2.10) unstable; urgency=low * menu package support: deb-make installs an template for the menu package. * debstd: Clean up package by removing empty directories if a file "clean" exists. * Joey: Support for Joost's menu package. -- Christoph Lameter Fri, 13 Dec 1996 18:24:35 -0800 debmake (2.09) unstable; urgency=low * debstd: bug in info file processing * debstd multi-binary support: package tmp directory was not created. The control file "files" used to fail. * debstd manpage revised . -- Christoph Lameter Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:42:40 -0800 debmake (2.08) unstable; urgency=low * template inetd.conf.ex updated with example how to place an entry in a section * release: post the processed control file from debian/tmp/DEBIAN instead of the one from the debian directory when announcing packages. * debstd: warn if empty /usr/info -- Christoph Lameter Thu, 12 Dec 1996 05:24:39 -0800 debmake (2.07) unstable; urgency=low * debstd: manpage updated * inetd.conf processor added (allows specification of sections and multiple entries) -- Christoph Lameter Wed, 11 Dec 1996 21:01:19 -0800 debmake (2.06) unstable; urgency=low * debstd: support for adding sections to /etc/aliases * bug: manpage + errormessage updated for filing bug reports as root -- Christoph Lameter Wed, 11 Dec 1996 08:43:48 -0800 debmake (2.05) unstable; urgency=low * debstd: Dont install copyright file if already installed by maintainer * debstd: Do not compress .gif and .html. New switch -c to switch off all compression for docs since there might be other html stuff not to be compressed. * release: Check environment variable DEBIAN_RELEASE_DESTINATION and uploads to that site. Default to master. * release: Consults a database of possible upload sites in /usr/lib/deb-make/upload.sites. Need to have the data for chiark! -- Christoph Lameter Sun, 8 Dec 1996 20:18:29 -0800 debmake (2.04) unstable; urgency=low * bug: set -v was accidentally left in the script -- Christoph Lameter Sun, 8 Dec 1996 19:16:01 -0800 debmake (2.03) unstable; urgency=low * added the possibility to upload to other hosts using scp (ftp.fuller.edu and lalug.org available right now. Could someone sent me the data on chiark?) * depend on package file * debstd: info files not in main distribution directory were not installed. -- Christoph Lameter Wed, 4 Dec 1996 20:56:35 -0800 debmake (2.02) unstable; urgency=low * bug: some more changes to the way subject lines are handled * debstd: some bugfixes relating to suid processing pointed out by Johnie Ingram * bug: Follow symlinks when trying to figure out the type of configfile * bug: Subject line can be edited when in the editor. * bug: debug switch (-d) added to send mail to postmaster@localhost * bug: manpage updated * fix some issues with multi-binary packages in debstd * template rules.multi updated -- Christoph Lameter Sat, 23 Nov 1996 07:01:17 -0800 debmake (2.01) experimental; urgency=low * debstd manpage updated regarding suidmanager processing. -- Christoph Lameter Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:22:19 -0800 debmake (2.00) experimental; urgency=low * Support for suidmanager (Generated scripts will check for presence of suidmanager and not use it if no suidmanager exists). A package can simply be rebuild and will use suidmanager if any setsid or setgid binaries are present. (ppp 2.3 is an example) Not documented yet. * debmake uses suidmanager to register build and debpkg with REGULAR permissions so that they can be changed in /etc/suid.conf * deb-make: Message on completion of debmake did not display intended text * bug: allow maintonly (-m) or quiet (-q) bug reports * bug: wrong matches on dependency parenthesis * bug: check if called with UID=0 and abort * control files reworked * Manual Pages updated * Multi-Binary capabilities now available from debstd. debmstd ceases to exist. -- Christoph Lameter Tue, 19 Nov 1996 11:28:38 -0800 debmake (1.99) unstable; urgency=low * procmail examples for filtering debian mailing lists included * README.debian revised: Made it clearer that debmake does not install any setuid programs. * build: include path for X11 binaries * bug: check if options given AFTER the packagename and give an errormessage if this is the case -- Christoph Lameter Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:18:45 -0800 debmake (1.98) unstable; urgency=low * bug: artistics to figure out versions of virtual packages (Thanks to the support by Joey + Guy). Not sure if this will work for all packages though. * debmstd: add analysis of executable formats and warn if unknown. * bug: add options to suppress config files and supply a subject * bug: dont list configfiles that are binaries -- Christoph Lameter Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:02:16 -0800 debmake (1.97) unstable; urgency=low * bug: speedup (circumvents dpkg now) * bug: allows filing a bug report against anything -- Christoph Lameter Tue, 12 Nov 1996 20:51:37 -0800 debmake (1.96) unstable; urgency=low * release: use dupload if installed (One always needs to specify the host to upload to though.) * bug: removed some lines from the bugreports that were not really essential. -- Christoph Lameter Tue, 12 Nov 1996 13:22:14 -0800 debmake (1.95) unstable; urgency=low * release: Changes file was not uploaded (why is it not listed in the changesfile itself if it is to be uploaded ????) -- Christoph Lameter Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:30:20 -0800 debmake (1.94) unstable; urgency=low * alien: bug when building rpm packages * deb-make does no longer accept strange characters in directorynames. -- Christoph Lameter Fri, 8 Nov 1996 19:41:30 -0800 debmake (1.93) unstable; urgency=low * bug: Depends: field was required in the description of the package processed. * debstd: bug in info processing. copied from debian instead of the main sourcedirectory. -- Christoph Lameter Fri, 8 Nov 1996 15:44:33 -0800 debmake (1.92) unstable; urgency=low * build: manpage updated * build: add support for targets binary-indep and binary-arch -- Christoph Lameter Fri, 8 Nov 1996 06:12:18 -0800 debmake (1.91) unstable; urgency=low * suidwrappers will be disabled on installation/upgrade. Instructions are provided on how to use these wrappers from sudo, super or directly in README.debian. -- Christoph Lameter Thu, 7 Nov 1996 13:39:50 -0800 debmake (1.90) unstable; urgency=low * depend on dpkg and dpkg-dev * debmstd: New command for experimental support of multi-binary packages (debmstd will replace debstd when tested and found stable) * debmake: Generates templates for multi-binary packages * release: improved handling of files for multi-binary support * Example setup for multi-binary support included (mgetty) -- Christoph Lameter Wed, 6 Nov 1996 10:06:41 -0800 debmake (1.23) unstable; urgency=low * release: add an option "announce" to manually specify that debian/control should be posted. * bug in release: Announcement generated for releases -- Christoph Lameter Tue, 5 Nov 1996 10:54:34 -0800 debmake (1.22) unstable; urgency=low * New directive in init scripts: NO_RESTART_ON_UPGRADE * Location of check for conffiles moved in debstd -- Christoph Lameter Tue, 5 Nov 1996 06:26:27 -0800 debmake (1.21) unstable; urgency=low * control prototype: standards made current * rules prototype chmod changed (Brian C. White) -- Christoph Lameter Mon, 4 Nov 1996 09:13:54 -0800 debmake (1.20) unstable; urgency=low * debclean: can be called as a regular user * build: Added clean option -- Christoph Lameter Mon, 4 Nov 1996 05:42:37 -0800 debmake (1.19) unstable; urgency=low * build: Fixed behavior in case invoked in the wrong directory * debstd: Build /usr/doc/package/buildinfo.Debian with information regarding the system it was build on. (Chris Fearnley) * rules prototype revised * Removed junk from changelog prototype -- Christoph Lameter Sun, 3 Nov 1996 16:54:09 -0800 debmake (1.18) unstable; urgency=low * debc does both dpkg -I and dpkg -c -- Christoph Lameter Sun, 3 Nov 1996 16:04:35 -0800 debmake (1.17) unstable; urgency=low * deb-make + alien: Username lookup now possible via NIS -- Christoph Lameter Sat, 2 Nov 1996 17:29:14 -0800 debmake (1.16) unstable; urgency=low * Some fixes to README.debian * Fixed bugs in the way debian/changelog is located in debi,debc,release -- Christoph Lameter Sat, 2 Nov 1996 09:52:59 -0800 debmake (1.15) unstable; urgency=low * New: "debi" installs generated .deb file (convenience script) * New: "debc" views contents of generated .deb file (convenience script) * Typical developmental cycle documented in README.debian * release: print scp error message and the e-mail address the announcement goes to -- Christoph Lameter Sat, 2 Nov 1996 08:48:25 -0800 debmake (1.14) unstable; urgency=low * New: "build" a suid wrapper for dpkg-buildpackage and "debian/rules binary" * New: "debpkg" a suid wrapper for dpkg. * debmake includes C code now and thus is architecture dependent * Suid wrappers accessible for users of group "root" only. * Complete development cycle possible from a regular account without having to "su". * Added check for the presence of ssh to "release" before trying do to an upload to master. * bug: filters comments and empty lines out of conffiles so that the included conffiles are not that long anymore. -- Christoph Lameter Sat, 2 Nov 1996 06:27:15 -0800 debmake (1.13) unstable; urgency=low * Bug in release: Announce to wrong mailing list+ Bruces suggestions -- Christoph Lameter Fri, 1 Nov 1996 15:54:08 -0800 debmake (1.12) unstable; urgency=low * debchange: RELEASED file not erased * More errorchecking in release * Removed creation of /etc from prototype * Updated docs -- Christoph Lameter Fri, 1 Nov 1996 11:21:24 -0800 debmake (1.11) unstable; urgency=low * release script was not included -- Christoph Lameter Fri, 1 Nov 1996 11:15:23 -0800 debmake (1.10) unstable; urgency=low * Added a new tool "release" which will upload to master announce changes and record the fact that a release has been done in debian/RELEASED. * debchange: Generate a new release without specifically told so if the software has been released and a debian/RELEASED file is present. * debmake now takes the "Did I already upload this or not?" worry from you. and manages releases on its own. -- Christoph Lameter Fri, 1 Nov 1996 11:03:53 -0800 debmake (1.09) unstable; urgency=low * bug tool reworked: It now automatically includes Debian Version, Kernel version, a list of the version numbers of packages this package depends on and includes all modified conffiles. -- Christoph Lameter Fri, 1 Nov 1996 09:58:11 -0800 debmake (1.08) unstable; urgency=low * Bug in etc.postrm * Made sure that documentation is installed mode 644 owned by root. * Updated Docs -- Christoph Lameter Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:06:22 -0800 debmake (1.07) unstable; urgency=low * check for EDITOR environment variable * debstd warn on /etc files not in conffiles and conffiles not provided in /etc and on having files in /etc but no conffile (Bruce) * exceptions for library dependencies possible -- Christoph Lameter Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:32:26 -0800 debmake (1.06) unstable; urgency=low * structure of alien .orig file changes to be more or less conformant with the way source .orig files are done. Diffs better readable now and the customization includes the generators e-mail and name into the control files. -- Christoph Lameter Thu, 31 Oct 1996 06:08:50 -0800 debmake (1.05) unstable; urgency=low * rpminstall, tgzinstall replaced by alien command * alien structure allows moving around of binaries and patching them in debian/rules. * alien command needs testing and some real life experiences -- Christoph Lameter Wed, 30 Oct 1996 21:43:35 -0800 debmake (1.04) unstable; urgency=low * bug in generation of modifications for files in /etc -- Christoph Lameter Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:46:35 -0800 debmake (1.03) unstable; urgency=low * debchange: no output in batch mode anymore * rpminstall, tgzinstall: -d option switches of calling debian/rules binary * debstd bug when giving the -m option. * On Bruces advice: advanced stripping of all binaries -- Christoph Lameter Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:02:30 -0800 debmake (1.02) unstable; urgency=low * Revised description in control * If the package provides libraries those are detected, appropriate information is generated for dpkg in "DEBIAN/shlibs" and a call to ldconfig is placed into the automatically generated postinst script. -- Christoph Lameter Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:23:05 -0800 debmake (1.01) unstable; urgency=low * new command tgzinstall: Converts / installs a Slackware .tgz package with dpkg using the same technique as rpminstall. * rpminstall: diverse fixes * Bug: debmake installed X11 manpages twice and did not compress them * rpminstall generated .deb not erased -- Christoph Lameter Sun, 27 Oct 1996 14:20:25 -0800 debmake (1.00) unstable; urgency=low * rpminstall : convert a package to debian (semi)sourcepackage, build it and install with dpkg. Does not do installation scripts right now. I was able to install gated like a debian package. * 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 ELF binaries in the Red Hat package. -- Christoph Lameter Sun, 27 Oct 1996 12:17:51 -0800 debmake (0.99) unstable; urgency=low * debstd gives message for unstripped binaries and strips them -- Christoph Lameter Sat, 26 Oct 1996 19:20:58 -0700 debmake (0.98) unstable; urgency=low * New command bug to assist in sending bug reports * debchange: added batch mode f.e. : dch -n Bug fixed reults in generating a new release number and putting "bug fixed" in the correct place in changelog -- Christoph Lameter Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:42:00 -0700 debmake (0.97) unstable; urgency=low * Example file for inetd.conf configuration provided * Recognize package names with a - * Manpages reworked. Manpage for debclean added -- Christoph Lameter Fri, 25 Oct 1996 09:37:17 -0700 debmake (0.96) unstable; urgency=low * debstd seaches for all executable binaries in package and runs dpkg-shlibdeps on all ELF binaries. No need to separately run dpkg-shlibdeps anymore. -- Christoph Lameter Thu, 24 Oct 1996 19:45:44 -0700 debmake (0.95) unstable; urgency=low * bugs in deb-make fixed. Checks for existing .orig archive -- Christoph Lameter Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:33:07 -0700 debmake (0.94) unstable; urgency=low * Set executable bit on debian/rules -- Christoph Lameter Wed, 23 Oct 1996 17:57:51 -0700 debmake (0.93) unstable; urgency=low * bug in deb-make. Failed with cannot find X -- Christoph Lameter Wed, 23 Oct 1996 10:39:11 -0700 debmake (0.92) unstable; urgency=low * backup files removed * use /etc/mailname to figure out e-mail address -- Christoph Lameter Tue, 22 Oct 1996 20:06:46 -0700 debmake (0.91) unstable; urgency=low * inetd.conf script generation added * Got rid of all temp files to speed up debstd * Updated debstd manpage * Fixed diversions so that they really work. * Added -m option to switch of the automatic installation of manpages -- Christoph Lameter Tue, 22 Oct 1996 16:29:17 -0700 debmake (0.9) unstable; urgency=low * Generate scripts for diversions (not sure if the code is up to standard) * Cleanup debstd * 822-date instead of date used to generate the date info. * Ability to generate scripts to add to config files in /etc included * example files and documentation files can be listed in file in debian -- Christoph Lameter Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:41:08 -0800 debmake (0.8) unstable; urgency=low * Generates maintenance scripts for info files, init.d scripts, purging of files. -- Christoph Lameter Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:20:23 -0800 debmake (0.7) unstable; urgency=low * Updated documentation * Progress indicator * Some errormessages from gzip avoided * converts manpages just having .so in it to symlinks * Gzipping separated for manpages (all), info (all) and docs (>4K) so we can easily adapt in case of future changes of policies. -- Christoph Lameter Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:51:06 -0800 debmake (0.6) unstable; urgency=low * debmake did not install scripts in debian directory! -- Christoph Lameter Thu, 17 Oct 1996 06:47:16 -0800 debmake (0.5) unstable; urgency=low * Manpages were installed as executables * Display of redirected links was not correct -- Christoph Lameter Wed, 16 Oct 1996 22:12:56 -0800 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 were changed due to compression. * Added rc.boot handling * Permissions for documentation were set to executable when debstd was used. -- Christoph Lameter Wed, 16 Oct 1996 08:44:26 -0800 debmake (0.3) unstable; urgency=low * Added a perl script debchanges which does maintenance of debian/changelog * Added manpage for debchanges and an alias "dch" since it is frequently used. -- Christoph Lameter Fri, 11 Oct 1996 14:00:15 -0800 debmake (0.2) unstable; urgency=low * Added a native mode to have a package that does not need an .orig directory * Put debstd into /usr/bin so that it does not have to be included in the source archives. * Added manpages for debstd and deb-make -- Christoph Lameter Thu, 10 Oct 1996 13:21:48 -0800 debmake (0.1) experimental; urgency=low * Initial Release. -- Christoph Lameter Thu, 10 Oct 1996 13:21:48 -0800 Fetched 97.2 kB in 0s (288 kB/s)