*- On 1 Jan, Robert L. Harris wrote about "alien not y2k compliant?"
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> Ok...
> I'm trying to scan myself and build a nice little security tool. This
> is the first thing I've run into but still....
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> {0}:wally:/usr/src/Util-System/nmap>alien -d nmap-2.3BETA12*rpm
> -- Examining nmap-2.3BETA12-1.i386.rpm
> -- Unpacking nmap-2.3BETA12-1.i386.rpm
> 1222 blocks
> -- Automatic package debianization
> alien: 822-date did not return a valid result.
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A quick look through the changelog for the versions between slink and
potato didn't show and y2k fixes but I did find the following:
alien (6.26) unstable; urgency=low
* If 822-date fails, the error now suggests installing dpkg-dev. This is
way up there in the alien faw(sic, faq) and I'm tired of answering it.
Since you did not get a suggestion about dpkg-dev I assume you are using
a version prior to 6.26. Just to make sure, do you have dpkg-dev
installed? In slink dpkg-dev was only a Recommends dependency for
alien, in potato it is a Depends dependency.
Brian Servis
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