Package: alien Version: 8.56 Severity: normal Alien apparently generates a spec file that makes rpm fall over:
---------------------------------------------------------------------- $ sudo apt-get source -b alien Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Need to get 74.1kB of source archives. Get:1 http://mirror.ox.ac.uk unstable/main alien 8.56 (dsc) [494B] Get:2 http://mirror.ox.ac.uk unstable/main alien 8.56 (tar) [73.6kB] Fetched 2B in 0s (72B/s) dpkg-source: extracting alien in alien-8.56 dpkg-source: unpacking alien_8.56.tar.gz [...] dpkg-deb: building package `alien' in `../alien_8.56_all.deb'. dpkg-genchanges -b dpkg-genchanges: binary-only upload - not including any source code dpkg-buildpackage: binary only upload (no source included) $ sudo alien --to-rpm --verbose alien_8.56_all.deb dpkg-deb --info alien_8.56_all.deb control 2>/dev/null dpkg-deb --info alien_8.56_all.deb control 2>/dev/null dpkg-deb --info alien_8.56_all.deb conffiles 2>/dev/null dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile alien_8.56_all.deb | tar tf - dpkg-deb --info alien_8.56_all.deb postinst 2>/dev/null dpkg-deb --info alien_8.56_all.deb postrm 2>/dev/null dpkg-deb --info alien_8.56_all.deb preinst 2>/dev/null dpkg-deb --info alien_8.56_all.deb prerm 2>/dev/null mkdir alien-8.56 mkdir: cannot create directory `alien-8.56': File exists chmod 755 alien-8.56 dpkg-deb -x alien_8.56_all.deb alien-8.56 rpm --showrc cd alien-8.56; rpmbuild -bb --target noarch alien-8.56-2.spec 2>&1 Package build failed. Here's the log of the command (cd alien-8.56; rpmbuild -bb --target noarch alien-8.56-2.spec): error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright error: line 6: Unknown tag: Copyright: see /usr/share/doc/alien/copyright Building target platforms: noarch Building for target noarch find alien-8.56 -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ; rm -rf alien-8.56 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The change appears deliberate; from /usr/share/doc/rpm/changelog.gz: - obsolete Serial:, Copyright:, and RHNPlatform: syntax in spec files. Thanks. Matt -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.13 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages alien depends on: ii cpio 2.6-9 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii debhelper 4.9.15 helper programs for debian/rules ii dpkg-dev 1.13.11 package building tools for Debian ii make 3.80-11 The GNU version of the "make" util ii perl 5.8.7-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii rpm 4.4.1-4 Red Hat package manager alien recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]