Package: alien
Version: 8.56
Severity: normal
Alien apparently generates a spec file that makes rpm fall over:
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$ sudo apt-get source -b alien
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Need to get 74.1kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://mirror.ox.ac.uk unstable/main alien 8.56 (dsc) [494B]
Get:2 http://mirror.ox.ac.uk unstable/main alien 8.56 (tar) [73.6kB]
Fetched 2B in 0s (72B/s)
dpkg-source: extracting alien in alien-8.56
dpkg-source: unpacking alien_8.56.tar.gz
[...]
dpkg-deb: building package `alien' in `../alien_8.56_all.deb'.
dpkg-genchanges -b
dpkg-genchanges: binary-only upload - not including any source code
dpkg-buildpackage: binary only upload (no source included)
$ sudo alien --to-rpm --verbose alien_8.56_all.deb
dpkg-deb --info alien_8.56_all.deb control 2>/dev/null
dpkg-deb --info alien_8.56_all.deb control 2>/dev/null
dpkg-deb --info alien_8.56_all.deb conffiles 2>/dev/null
dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile alien_8.56_all.deb | tar tf -
dpkg-deb --info alien_8.56_all.deb postinst 2>/dev/null
dpkg-deb --info alien_8.56_all.deb postrm 2>/dev/null
dpkg-deb --info alien_8.56_all.deb preinst 2>/dev/null
dpkg-deb --info alien_8.56_all.deb prerm 2>/dev/null
mkdir alien-8.56
mkdir: cannot create directory `alien-8.56': File exists
chmod 755 alien-8.56
dpkg-deb -x alien_8.56_all.deb alien-8.56
rpm --showrc
cd alien-8.56; rpmbuild -bb --target noarch alien-8.56-2.spec 2>&1
Package build failed. Here's the log of the command (cd alien-8.56;
rpmbuild -bb --target noarch alien-8.56-2.spec):
error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright
error: line 6: Unknown tag: Copyright: see /usr/share/doc/alien/copyright
Building target platforms: noarch
Building for target noarch
find alien-8.56 -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ;
rm -rf alien-8.56
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The change appears deliberate; from /usr/share/doc/rpm/changelog.gz:
- obsolete Serial:, Copyright:, and RHNPlatform: syntax in spec files.
Thanks.
Matt
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages alien depends on:
ii cpio 2.6-9 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii debhelper 4.9.15 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 4.4.1-4 Red Hat package manager
alien recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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