* The great rewrite. Alien is now based on pure object oriented package

objects. These objects can read all relevant details about a package, and
     can generate packages based on that information. Thus, converting from one
     format to another becomes a simple matter of generating one of these
     objects, pointing it at a package, mutating it into the destination
     class, and telling it to write the new package out! A basic alien can now
     be written using these objects in one "line" of perl -- in fact, here is
     one:
       perl -MAlien::Package::Deb -MAlien::Package::Rpm -e '
       	       $p=Alien::Package::Rpm->new(filename => shift); $p->unpack;
   * Almost every line of code has been rewritten.
   * Package descriptions now include a note that they were converted with
     alien. There are other numerous changes to the converted packages, for
     instance, generated .deb's now have more info in their copyright file.
   * The template files were all moved inside the objects, which is actually
     cleaner and is certainly easier to deal with.
   * Usernames are now looked up the way POSIX intended.
   * alien.1 is now generated from POD docs.
   * Alien can now convert into multiple formats at once.
   * Alien now always cleans up after failed converts, Closes: #62331
   * Alien can now be used to just install a package with no conversion.
     Closes: #53441
   * Use a Makefile.PL because that seems to make sense, which means lots of
     the build system had to be changed.

alien.pl

@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
 					$package->patchfile($patchfile)
 				}
 				else {
-					$package->patchfile($package->getpatch(patchdirs());
+					$package->patchfile($package->getpatch(patchdirs()));
 				}
 			}