Bug#983492: alien incorrectly generates debian/rules
Package: alien
Version: 8.95.3
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
It appears, sometime between 8.95 and 8.95.3, alien started generating incorrect debian/rules output, resulting in it being unable to convert at least RPMs[1] into DEBs successfully (though I'm guessing it broke everything.)
In particular, it generates debian/rules that look like:
%:
dh
when the clear intention from reading the source is to generate:
%:
dh $@
The patch below corrects this behavior, and allows alien to correctly generate DEBs in at least the RPM packages I was testing with.
--- ./blib/lib/Alien/Package/Deb.pm.old 2021-02-24 20:25:49.896411306 -0500
+++ ./blib/lib/Alien/Package/Deb.pm 2021-02-24 20:26:06.868446646 -0500
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@
PACKAGE=\$(shell dh_listpackages)
%:
- dh $@
+ dh \$\@
override_dh_clean:
dh_clean -d
Hopefully someone will apply this at some point, though I'm aware alien is currently unmaintained.
- Rich
[1] - cf. https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/11650
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.8
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (1000, 'stable'), (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages alien depends on:
ii cpio 2.12+dfsg-9
ii debhelper 12.1.1
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7
ii make 4.2.1-1.2
ii perl 5.28.1-6+deb10u1
ii rpm 4.14.2.1+dfsg1-1
ii rpm2cpio 4.14.2.1+dfsg1-1
alien recommends no packages.
Versions of packages alien suggests:
ii bzip2 1.0.6-9.2~deb10u1
ii lintian 2.15.0
ii lzma 9.22-2.1
ii patch 2.7.6-3+deb10u1
ii xz-utils [lzma] 5.2.4-1
-- no debconf information
-- debsums errors found:
debsums: changed file /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Deb.pm (from alien package)
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