diff --git a/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm b/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm
index 144a434..630ed77 100644
--- a/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm
+++ b/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm
@@ -284,6 +284,7 @@ sub prep {
 	print OUT "\n";
 	print OUT "\%define _rpmdir ../\n"; # write rpm to current directory
 	print OUT "\%define _rpmfilename %%{NAME}-%%{VERSION}-%%{RELEASE}.%%{ARCH}.rpm\n";
+	print OUT "\%define _unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0\n"; # work on SuSE
 	print OUT "\n";
 	if ($this->usescripts) {
 		if ($this->preinst) {
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8f46a8a..0360df1 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+alien (8.46) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Unset _unpackaged_files_terminate_build when building rpms, at least SuSE
+    sets this, which breaks alien due to its placement of the spec file in the
+    build directory.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  1 Aug 2004 20:50:37 -0400
+
 alien (8.45) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Run dh_clean with -d to avoid cleaning up any oddly named files from rpms,