Bug#759533: alien: Converted rpm won't be installed on Fedora system

Following a similar report , I found that much the same thing has been reported upstream as Generated RPM files un-necessarily conflict with package "filesystem" .

Bug#759533: alien: Converted rpm won't be installed on Fedora system

Package: alien Version: 8.91 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When I use alien to convert a deb to rpm package, the empty directories in the rpm are denied by Fedora system. Steps to reproduce the issue (just an example, I know there is pigz on Fedora system): 1. sudo apt-get -d --reinstall