The rewrite can convert from rpm to deb -- this is getting exciting!

Alien/Package.pm

@@ -79,10 +79,19 @@ A longer description of the package. May contain multiple paragraphs.
 
 A short statement of copyright.
 
+=item origformat
+
+What format the package was originally in.
+
 =item distribution
 
 What distribution family the package originated from.
 
+=item binary_info
+
+Whatever the package's package tool says when told to display info about
+the package.
+
 =item conffiles
 
 A reference to a list of all the conffiles in the package.
@@ -91,6 +100,10 @@ A reference to a list of all the conffiles in the package.
 
 A reference to a list of all the files in the package.
 
+=item changelogtext
+
+The text of the changelog
+
 =item postinst
 
 The postinst script of the package.
@@ -195,6 +208,19 @@ sub unpack {
 	$this->unpacked_tree($workdir);
 }
 
+=item prep
+
+This method causes the object to prepare a build tree to be used in
+building the object. It expects that the unpack method has already been
+called. It takes the tree generated by that method, and mangles it somehow,
+to produce a suitable build tree.
+
+(This is just a stub method that all child classes should override.)
+
+=cut
+
+sub prep {}
+
 =item DESTROY
 
 When an object is destroyed, it cleans some stuff up. In particular, if the