Fixed in Maverick:
alien (8.81) unstable; urgency=low
* Avoid uninitialized value warning when debian/rules fails to run
due to alien being run in a noexec directory. Closes: #579216
* Prevent DESTROY stomping on alien's exit code sometimes.
* Support extracting lzma compressed RPMs
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** Tags added: patch
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Alien fails for lzma-compressed rpms
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/497460
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Should probably add the '-q' flag to the lzma decompress too...
attaching updated patch.
** Patch added: "Updated version of previous patch, sets the '-q' flag for lzma
decompress"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38741402/alien-8.78-lzma.patch
** Attachment removed: "Simple patch to detect and
Attached patch for Rpm.pm from alien-8.78 detects LZMA packed CPIO
archives, and allows them to be worked with, and retains ability to work
with standard RPMs.
Please test...
** Attachment added: "Simple patch to detect and support LZMA-packed RPMs"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38741381/alien
