Changelog for alien-8.88-3.1.i586.rpm :
Thu Mar 21 13:00:00 2013 joerg.steffensAATTdass-it.de
- use perl-macros to generate file list, as descriped in http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Perl.
This fixes the build for SLE_10, SLE_11 and Evergreen 11

Thu Mar 14 13:00:00 2013 barendartchukAATTnovell.com
- new version 8.88:
(from upstream changelog)

* Ensure that version numbers begin with well, a number, when building a
deb, otherwise dpkg-deb will refuse to build it.

* Use lsb-rpmbuild, not lsb-rpm. Closes: #667044

* Fix adding of postinst script to deb, containing rpm permissions
fixups code. Closes: #667651

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

* Avoid breaking on spaces in filenames. Closes: #618636

* 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.

* Correct handling of arch all packages in deb arch check. Closes: #596209

* 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

Wed Aug 18 14:00:00 2010 puzelAATTnovell.com
- update to alien 8.81

* Avoid uninitialized value warning when debian/rules fails to run
due to alien being run in a noexec directory.

* Prevent DESTROY stomping on alien\'s exit code sometimes.

* Support extracting lzma compressed RPMs.

* 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.

* Support RPMs containing ghost files.

Fri May 28 14:00:00 2010 puzelAATTnovell.com
- do not build as noarch

Fri May 7 14:00:00 2010 puzelAATTnovell.com
- update to alien 8.80

* Support querying rpm LICENSE field. (Alexey Khoroshilov)

Thu Mar 25 13:00:00 2010 puzelAATTnovell.com
- add alien-strip-tilde-from-version.patch (bnc#590986)

Thu Mar 25 13:00:00 2010 puzelAATTnovell.com
- update to alien-8.79

* Modify -g and -s to support running on multiple packages at once.

* 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 These were out of date,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.

Fri Aug 28 14:00:00 2009 puzelAATTnovell.com
- update to alien 8.78

* Add support for rpm 4.7.0, which ignores the buildroot setting in the
spec file, by passing --buildroot. (Thanks, Pavel Roskin)
- cleanup specfile

Tue Jul 7 14:00:00 2009 puzelAATTnovell.com
- update to alien 8.77

* 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\".

Tue Jun 9 14:00:00 2009 puzelAATTsuse.cz
- update to 8.76

* 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.

Thu May 7 14:00:00 2009 puzelAATTsuse.cz
- update to 8.75

* 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.

Mon Feb 16 13:00:00 2009 puzelAATTsuse.cz
- update to 8.74

* support bzipped and uncompressed tar files, using tar\'s auto-compression detection

* pod fixes

Tue Jan 13 13:00:00 2009 puzelAATTsuse.cz
- update to 8.73

* (8.73) fix pkg generation to not include /prototype in all packages

* (8.72) improve parsing of tgz filenames, to avoid confusion when the filename
includes the package type (ie, \"noarch\")

* (8.71) deal with rpms that relocate ie, /usr into /usr/local, and don\'t
try to move /usr into /usr/local in this case

* (8.70) extract prefixes field before extracting scripts so that
RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX gets set

* (8.69) minor improvement to debian/rules clean.

Wed Jan 7 13:00:00 2009 puzelAATTsuse.cz
- fix rpmlint warning - package is noarch

Thu Jul 26 14:00:00 2007 prusnakAATTsuse.cz
- update to 8.68

* (8.66) use date -R as 822-date will soon be deprecated

* (8.67) correct a bug that caused alien to ignore failing commands

* (8.68) show output of installation of package with -i, since
some packages install scripts may have important output or even
be interactive

Wed Jan 3 13:00:00 2007 prusnakAATTsuse.cz
- update to 8.65

* 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.

Thu Jul 27 14:00:00 2006 mjancarAATTsuse.cz
- update to 8.64

* Minor improvement to usage message

* Correct code to properly use RPMBUILDOPT (not RPMBUILDOPTS)

* Look at and chmod the right directories.

* Fix a bug in conffile script extraction from tgz files (caused by
return from runpipe not defaulting to a scalar).