Change log for alien package in Debian

alien (8.95.6) unstable; urgency=medium

  * QA upload.

  [ Debian Janitor ]
  * Remove constraints unnecessary since buster:
    + alien: Drop versioned constraint on rpm in Depends.

 -- Jelmer Vernooij <email address hidden>  Wed, 25 May 2022 18:54:06 +0100

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• diff from 8.95.5 to 8.95.6 (462 bytes)

alien (8.95.5) unstable; urgency=medium

  * QA upload.
  * Alien/Package/Deb.pm: Do not fail when dh_usrlocal returns
    with nonzero value. A warning (shown in --veryverbose)
    is generated instead. (Closes: #992188)

 -- Boyuan Yang <email address hidden>  Sun, 22 Aug 2021 01:14:58 -0400

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• diff from 8.95.4 to 8.95.5 (778 bytes)

alien (8.95.4) unstable; urgency=high

  * QA upload.
  * Alien/Package/Deb.pm: Fix incorrect debian/rules template by
    properly escaping special characters (dh \$\@ instead of dh $@).
    Closes: #983492.
  * Alien/Package/Deb.pm: Fix incorrect file installation path.
    This fixes the bug in manual override_dh_auto_install that files
    are placed under / instead of /usr/ (default prefix).
    Closes: #985835.
  * Alien/Package/Rpm.pm: Also map aarch64 in rpm to arm64 in deb.
    This fixes conversion of aarch64 rpm packages.
    Closes: #985808.

 -- Boyuan Yang <email address hidden>  Wed, 07 Apr 2021 12:15:06 -0400

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• diff from 8.95.3 to 8.95.4 (939 bytes)

alien (8.95.3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * QA upload.
  * Upload to unstable.

 -- Adrian Bunk <email address hidden>  Thu, 11 Feb 2021 22:02:09 +0200

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• diff from 8.95+nmu1 to 8.95.3 (7.7 KiB)

alien (8.95+nmu1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Non maintainer upload by the Reproducible Builds team.
  * No source change upload to rebuild on buildd with .buildinfo files.

 -- Holger Levsen <email address hidden>  Fri, 01 Jan 2021 14:49:05 +0100

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• diff from 8.95 to 8.95+nmu1 (337 bytes)

alien (8.95.2) experimental; urgency=medium

  * QA upload.
  * debian/control:
      + Bump debhelper compat to v13.
      + Included Rules-Requires-Root: no
  * debian/changelog:
      + Removed trailing-whitespaces.
  * alien.pl:
      + Fixed some misspelled words.
  * Alien/Package.pm:
      + Fixed misspelled word.
  * Alien/Package/Rpm.pm:
      + Fixed misspeled word.
  * debian/rules:
      + Added a "nocheck" check on override_dh_auto_test.

 -- Thiago da Silva Gracini <email address hidden>  Sun, 01 Nov 2020 15:35:34 -0300

alien (8.95.1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * QA upload.
  * Rebuild source and binary package.
  * debian/control:
    + Bump debhelper compat to v12.
    + Bump Standards-Version to 4.5.0.
    + Update Vcs-* fields to use git packaging repo under Salsa
      Debian group.
  * Rpm.pm: Do not ship conflicting dirs. (Closes: #759533)
  * Deb.pm:
    + Use dh sequencer when generating deb packages.
    + Bump supported debhelper compatibility level to v10.

 -- Boyuan Yang <email address hidden>  Tue, 31 Mar 2020 10:52:19 -0400

alien (8.95) unstable; urgency=medium

  * QA upload.
  * debian/control:
      - Bumped Standards-Version to 3.9.6.
      - Removed duplicated section field.
  * debian/copyright:
      - Replaced protocol from http to https in the Format field.
      - Included authors' e-mail addresses.
      - Replaced GPL-2+ license reference by actual GPL-2+ license.
  * debian/source/format: Created as 3.0 (native).

 -- Fabiano Antunes <email address hidden>  Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:09:04 -0300

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• diff from 8.94 to 8.95 (3.5 KiB)

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 <email address hidden>  Sat, 25 Jul 2015 21:24:15 +0200

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• diff from 8.93 to 8.94 (869 bytes)

alien (8.93) unstable; urgency=medium


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

 -- Joey Hess <email address hidden>  Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:25:47 -0400

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• diff from 8.92 to 8.93 (1.0 KiB)

alien (8.92) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Remove suggests for lsb-rpm, which no longer exists.
    Closes: #756873

 -- Joey Hess <email address hidden>  Sun, 31 Aug 2014 14:16:23 -0700

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• diff from 8.91 to 8.92 (1.1 KiB)

alien (8.91) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Support other deb data.tar compression schemes in fallback code.
    Closes: #718364
    Thanks, Guillem Jover

 -- Joey Hess <email address hidden>  Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:03:54 -0400

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• diff from 8.90 to 8.91 (2.2 KiB)

alien (8.90) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Add --target=<arch> option for setting architecture. Closes: #260948
    (Thanks, Teemu Ikonen)
  * Add conversion from ppc64le (rpm) to ppc64el (deb).
  * debhelper v9

 -- Joey Hess <email address hidden>  Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:59:07 -0400

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• diff from 8.89 to 8.90 (2.1 KiB)

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 <email address hidden>  Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:53:44 -0400

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• diff from 8.88 to 8.89 (1.9 KiB)

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 <email address hidden>  Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:44:49 -0400

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• diff from 8.87 to 8.88 (698 bytes)

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 <email address hidden>  Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:53:29 -0400

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• diff from 8.86 to 8.87 (2.3 KiB)

alien (8.86) unstable; urgency=low


  * Filter out illegal characters in version number when building a deb.
    Closes: #648531

 -- Joey Hess <email address hidden>  Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:12:35 -0400

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• diff from 8.85 (in Ubuntu) to 8.86 (832 bytes)

alien (8.85) unstable; urgency=low
  * Avoid breaking on spaces in filenames. Closes: #618636 -- Joey Hess <email address hidden>  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 <email address hidden>  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 <email address hidden>  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 <email address hidden>  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 <email address hidden>  Mon, 17 May 2010 20:56:59 -0400

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 <email address hidden>  Thu, 01 May 2008 15:40:34 -0400