Package: alien Version: 8.66 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss
A good example is better than a lengthy explanation: $ ls wmlaptop* wmlaptop-1.4-1.i386.rpm wmlaptop-1.4.tar.gz wmlaptop-1.4: [...] $ alien wmlaptop-1.4-1.i386.rpm mkdir: can't create directory `wmlaptop-1.4': File exists. wmlaptop_1.4-2_i386.deb generated $ ls wmlaptop* wmlaptop-1.4-1.i386.rpm wmlaptop-1.4.tar.gz Directory wmlaptop-1.4 disappeared! -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages alien depends on: ii cpio 2.7-1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii debhelper 5.0.49 helper programs for debian/rules ii dpkg-dev 1.13.25 package building tools for Debian ii make 3.81-3 The GNU version of the "make" util ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii rpm 4.4.1-14 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]
