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8. By scm on 2010-07-01

Fix for rpm with ghost files branched to lucid from 8.81 (maverick).
Closes: #507326

7. By Joey Hess <email address hidden> on 2009-12-01

* Typo. Closes: #554379
* Modify -g and -s to support running on multiple packages at once.
  Closes: #554404
* 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 These were out of date,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.
* Depend on the new rpm2cpio package. Closes: #559061

6. By Joey Hess <email address hidden> on 2009-07-08

Add support for rpm 4.7.0, which ignores the buildroot setting in the
spec file, by passing --buildroot. (Thanks, Pavel Roskin)

5. By Joey Hess <email address hidden> on 2009-06-08

* 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. Closes: #532330
  (Thanks, Bruce Stephens)

4. By Joey Hess <email address hidden> on 2008-05-01

* Use debhelper 7, rules file minimisation.
* Improve parsing of tgz filenames, to avoid confusion when the filename
  includes the package type (ie, "noarch"). Patch from Andrej Ricnik-Bay.
* When generating a debian changelog file, work around bug #478925 by
  including the alien changelog text inside the debian changelog entry.

3. By Joey Hess <email address hidden> on 2006-03-30

Minor improvement to usage message as reported in [some random blog
somewhere that I happened to read by accident].

2. By Joey Hess <email address hidden> on 2005-04-21

Add a new parameter to runpipe to control whether it automatically
checks the return code of the command (and exits). Turn this on for many
runpipe calls that are not expected to fail in normal operation, but can
fail if the input file is empty, corrupt, or not readable. Previous
behavior for rpm files was a cascading failure that created weird
directories in cwd. Closes: #305592

1. By Joey Hess <email address hidden> on 2002-04-01

Support rpms with a description consisting of just blank lines.