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 nothing.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/730236 Title: alien 8.81 claims to build .deb but doesn't -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs