Sam, thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to
make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and
it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the
developers of the software by following the instructions at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Debian/Bug
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Title:
alien 8.81 claims to build .deb but doesn't
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and of course workaround with:
dpkg-architecture -ai386 -c "fakeroot alien *.rpm"
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alien 8.81 claims to build .deb but doesn't
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This patch is a partial solution - better error checking and warning.
Doesn't solve the main problem of being unable to build for a different
architecture though.
** Patch added: "alien.diff"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alien/+bug/730236/+attachment/1891735/+files/alien.diff
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I believe the new change to debhelper is buggy - it does not operate on
all packages by default as claimed in the man page, and the -a switch
was changed to depend on the build architecture. This seems illogical
and not backwards compatible. However, alien should still report the
failure properly.
In my case this was due to architecture incompatibility. debhelper
changed in a way that prevents dh_listpackages from returning the
incompatible architecture. It used to do so, so alien could build the
package and you could then use ia32-libs etc. It should also not report
success when doing nothi
