Changelog for alien-8.88-bp153.4.1.x86_64.rpm :

* Thu Mar 21 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 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 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 2010 puzelAATTnovell.com- do not build as noarch
* Fri May 07 2010 puzelAATTnovell.com- update to alien 8.80
* Support querying rpm LICENSE field. (Alexey Khoroshilov)
* Thu Mar 25 2010 puzelAATTnovell.com- add alien-strip-tilde-from-version.patch (bnc#590986)
* Thu Mar 25 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 These were out of date, and not maintained.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 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 07 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 09 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.