diff -Nru alien-8.79/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm alien-8.79ubuntu1/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm
--- alien-8.79/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm	2009-10-19 13:34:17.000000000 -0700
+++ alien-8.79ubuntu1/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm	2010-07-01 14:59:47.000000000 -0700
@@ -261,12 +261,17 @@
 		if (defined($owninfo{$file}) && ($mode & 07000 > 0)) {
 			$modeinfo{$file} = sprintf "%lo", $mode;
 		}
-		if ($> == 0) {
-			$this->do("chown", "$uid:$gid", "$workdir/$file") 
-				|| die "failed chowning $file to $uid\:$gid\: $!";
+		# Note that %ghost files exist in the control data but not
+                # in the cpio archive, so check that the latter exists
+                # before trying to access it
+		if (-e "$workdir/$file") {
+			if ($> == 0) {
+				$this->do("chown", "$uid:$gid", "$workdir/$file") 
+					|| die "failed chowning $file to $uid\:$gid\: $!";
+			}
+			$this->do("chmod", sprintf("%lo", $mode), "$workdir/$file") 
+				|| die "failed changing mode of $file to $mode\: $!";
 		}
-		$this->do("chmod", sprintf("%lo", $mode), "$workdir/$file") 
-			|| die "failed changing mode of $file to $mode\: $!";
 	}
 	$this->owninfo(\%owninfo);
 	$this->modeinfo(\%modeinfo);
diff -Nru alien-8.79/debian/changelog alien-8.79ubuntu1/debian/changelog
--- alien-8.79/debian/changelog	2009-12-01 10:24:04.000000000 -0800
+++ alien-8.79ubuntu1/debian/changelog	2010-07-01 15:01:02.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+alien (8.79ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix for rpm with ghost files branched to lucid from 8.81 (maverick).
+    Closes: #507326
+
+ -- Chuck McIntyre <scm@google.com>  Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:00:06 -0700
+
 alien (8.79) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Typo. Closes: #554379