diff --git a/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm b/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm
index 376da16..d3b27c7 100644
--- a/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm
+++ b/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm
@@ -172,8 +172,10 @@ sub unpack {
 			}
 		}
 		# Now move all files in the package to the directory we made.
-		(system("mv", @filelist, "$workdir/".$this->prefixes) == 0)
-			or die "error moving unpacked files into the default prefix directory: $!";
+		if (@filelist) {
+			(system("mv", @filelist, "$workdir/".$this->prefixes) == 0)
+				or die "error moving unpacked files into the default prefix directory: $!";
+		}
 	}
 
 	# cpio does not necessarily store all parent directories in an
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 5856042..9eb9f90 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+alien (8.25) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Support rpms that contain no files. Closes: #184714
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:34:33 -0800
+
 alien (8.24) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Corrected precidence problem that made alien not catch mkdir of the work