Package: alien Version: 8.56 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
RPM often does not specify permissions for directories which contain files, and does not place the directories to the cpio archives in packages. Alien sets mode 755 for that files. It recognizes such directories by comparing their mode with 777&(~umask). But, some time ago, cpio changed its defaults. Now, they created implicit directories with permissions 700. So, these directories are not found by the alien anymore. Neither "man cpio" nor http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7990989775/xcu/cpio.html do not specify the mode cpio must set on these directories. So, this bug is in the alien package, which relied on the undocumented behavior of cpio. I believe this bug should be fixed by changing the way alien looks for the implicitly created directories. It should take the list of the cpio archive contents by the "cpio -it" command, and compare the list with the actual files and directories created by the "cpio -id" command. I mark the bug as grave as it breaks rpm -> deb transformation in most cases, making the produced packages unusable "out of the box". Since the rpm -> deb transformation is the one most peple want from alien, I suppose this is what is called "renders package unusable". -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R) Versions of packages alien depends on: ii cpio 2.6-8 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii debhelper 4.9.8 helper programs for debian/rules ii dpkg-dev 1.13.11 package building tools for Debian ii make 3.80-11 The GNU version of the "make" util ii perl 5.8.7-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii rpm 4.0.4-31.1 Red Hat package manager alien recommends no packages. -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
