alien does not warn when it fails due to incompatible arch
Bug #730236 reported by
Sam Brightman
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Alien |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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alien (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: alien
On Ubuntu 10.10, alien 8.81 tries to build a .deb from a .rpm and reports success. However, the .deb file doesn't exist. The same build was working on Karmic.
One example is here: http://
Another example is building the FX printer driver from RPM for use with Dell 1320c: http://
tags: | added: patch |
description: | updated |
Changed in alien: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
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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.