Package: alien
Version: 8.95.3
Severity: important
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: rincebr...@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer,
alien incorrectly copies files when it's generating packages on my system,
resulting in packages
where instead of, say, /usr/include/... and /usr/sbin/..., it puts things in
/include/... and
/sbin/...
I've created a patch, which I'm not entirely happy with, that fixes it for the
test case I was
reproducing it on (generating deb packages from the upstream zfsonlinux source
packages, which
use alien to turn their generated rpms into debs).
Thanks,
- Rich Ercolani
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing-security
APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.11.8 (SMP w/6 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages alien depends on:
ii cpio 2.13+dfsg-4
ii debhelper 13.3.4
ii dpkg-dev 1.20.7.1
ii make 4.3-4
ii perl 5.32.1-3
ii rpm 4.16.1.2+dfsg1-0.4
ii rpm2cpio 4.16.1.2+dfsg1-0.4
alien recommends no packages.
Versions of packages alien suggests:
ii bzip2 1.0.8-4
pn lintian <none>
ii patch 2.7.6-7
ii xz-utils [lzma] 5.2.5-1.0
-- no debconf information
--- Alien/Package/Deb.pm.aside 2021-03-24 12:46:48.445705086 -0400
+++ Alien/Package/Deb.pm 2021-03-24 12:46:54.829597635 -0400
@@ -482,9 +482,11 @@
override_dh_auto_build:
override_dh_auto_install:
+ mkdir -p debian/\$(PACKAGE)
# Copy the packages's files.
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian -print0 | \\
- xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {} debian/\$(PACKAGE)
+ sed -e s#'./'##g | \\
+ xargs -0 -r -i cp -a ./{} debian/\$(PACKAGE)/{}
#
# If you need to move files around in debian/\$(PACKAGE) or do some
# binary patching, do it here
