[Bug 1627111] [NEW] add automatic transformation of tgz paths to alien

[Jonathan Kamens]

Public bug reported:

I'm submitting this here rather than upstream because it appears (from
http://joeyh.name/code/alien/news/no_longer_maintaining_alien/) that
there is no upstream maintainer. If I'm wrong and there's somebody else
to whom I should be submitting this, please point me in the right
direction.

The attached patch adds to alien the ability for it to do "magic"
transformation of paths in a tar file into appropriate Linux filesystem
paths. This is useful when what you've got is a distribution-independent
binary tar file distributed by a package maintainer which just has the
files in it, without the appropriate filesystem layout.

See the docs that the patch adds for additional information.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: alien 8.95 [modified: usr/bin/alien usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Tgz.pm]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-38.57-generic 4.4.19
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Sep 23 12:47:18 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-09 (44 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: alien
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: alien (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial

** Patch added: "Patch to add --tar-magic-transform support to alien"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1627111/+attachment/4747202/+files/alien.patch

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Title:
  add automatic transformation of tgz paths to alien

Status in alien package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm submitting this here rather than upstream because it appears (from
  http://joeyh.name/code/alien/news/no_longer_maintaining_alien/) that
  there is no upstream maintainer. If I'm wrong and there's somebody
  else to whom I should be submitting this, please point me in the right
  direction.

  The attached patch adds to alien the ability for it to do "magic"
  transformation of paths in a tar file into appropriate Linux
  filesystem paths. This is useful when what you've got is a
  distribution-independent binary tar file distributed by a package
  maintainer which just has the files in it, without the appropriate
  filesystem layout.

  See the docs that the patch adds for additional information.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: alien 8.95 [modified: usr/bin/alien usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Tgz.pm]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-38.57-generic 4.4.19
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-38-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Sep 23 12:47:18 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-09 (44 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: alien
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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