Comment 4 for bug 497460

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.
     (Patch by unnamed person on some bug tracking system I don't frequent.)
   * Suggest lzma. If not installed, alien will still fail to decompress
     RPMs using it, but will support most rpms, which are not.
   * Fix precedence problem that prevented alien from preserving permissions
     of suid/sgid binaries that are not owned by root.
     (Patch by Duane Waddle, on a bug tracking system I don't frequent, that
     was about the "expire" it 4 days from now. We got lucky Duane, but please
     use the Debian BTS next time!)
   * Support RPMs containing ghost files.
     (Patch by Ben Webb, who would get his patches applied quicker if he
     actually communicated them to the program's author.)

 -- Joey Hess <email address hidden> Mon, 17 May 2010 20:56:59 -0400