Package: alien
Version: 8.52
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
it happened to me that I converted an RPM to DEB only to find out some
time later that locally installed libraries had been taken into account
for the dependencies. In order to rectify this problem, I wanted to
regenerate a DEB from the very same RPM on a clean system, and I wanted
this new DEB to have a higher version number than the one before so that
I could easily roll it out to a few machines. I added an option
`--bump' to alien which allows to bump the release by more than 1.
Patch follows.
--- alien.org 2005-06-02 20:04:24.000000000 +0200
+++ alien 2005-06-02 20:08:00.000000000 +0200
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@
# Start by processing the parameters.
my (%destformats, $generate, $install, $single, $scripts, $patchfile,
$nopatch, $tgzdescription, $tgzversion, $keepversion, $fixperms, $test,
- $anypatch);
+ $anypatch, $versionbump);
# Bundling is nice anyway, and it is required or Getopt::Long will confuse
# -T and -t.
@@ -373,6 +373,7 @@
"verbose|v" => \$Alien::Package::verbose,
"veryverbose" => sub { $Alien::Package::verbose=2 },
"keep-version|k" => \$keepversion,
+ "bump=s" => \$versionbump,
"fixperms" => \$fixperms,
"help|h" => \&usage,
) || usage();
@@ -451,7 +452,8 @@
# Increment release.
unless (defined $keepversion) {
$^W=0; # Shut of possible "is not numeric" warning.
- $package->release($package->release + 1);
+ $package->release($package->release
+ + ( defined($versionbump)? $versionbump : 1));
$^W=1; # Re-enable warnings.
}
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages alien depends on:
ii cpio 2.5-1.2 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii debhelper 4.2.32 helper programs for debian/rules
ii dpkg-dev 1.10.27 Package building tools for Debian
ii make 3.80-9 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii perl 5.8.4-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii rpm 4.0.4-31 Red Hat package manager
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