Max Kirillov wrote: > 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.
Thanks, that's a good idea for a better implementation, and I've done so. > 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". FWIW, that was an inflated severity. Alien is more and more used to convert debs to rpms (http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/alien_use_patterns-2004-02-11-20-15.html) and also, this bug only caused debs created by alien to create mode 700 directories in some circumstances when installed, not always. -- see shy jo
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