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alien 8.78 released with these changes Add support for rpm 4.7.0, which ignores the buildroot setting in the spec file, by passing --buildroot. (Thanks, Pavel Roskin)

alien 8.77 released with these changes 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

alien 8.76 released with these changes 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)

alien 8.75 released with these changes 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 ... [More] 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 [Less]

alien 8.74 released with these changes Support bzipped and uncompressed tar files, using tar's auto-compression detection. (Requires gnu tar 1.14.91) pod fixes

alien 8.73 released with these changes Fix pkg generation to not include /prototype in all packages. (Kim Bisgaard)

alien 8.72 released with these changes 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 ... [More] debian changelog file, work around bug #478925 by including the alien changelog text inside the debian changelog entry. [Less]

alien 8.71 released with these changes 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

alien 8.70 released with these changes Extract prefixes field before extracting scripts so that RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX gets set.

alien 8.69 released with these changes Alien's repository has moved from subversion to git. Minor improvement to debian/rules clean. Improve the short description.