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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 <email address hidden> Mon, 17 May 2010 20:56:59 -0400
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alien (8.80) unstable; urgency=low
* Support querying rpm LICENSE field. (Alexey Khoroshilov)
-- Joey Hess <email address hidden> Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:44:52 -0400
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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 These were out of date,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 <email address hidden> Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:23:55 -0500
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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 <email address hidden> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:53:05 -0400
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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 <email address hidden> Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:22:35 -0400
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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 <email address hidden> Wed, 06 May 2009 17:22:02 -0400
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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 <email address hidden> Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:51:54 -0500
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alien (8.73) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix pkg generation to not include /prototype in all packages.
(Kim Bisgaard)
-- Joey Hess <email address hidden> Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:43:47 -0400
