fully conformant with the LSB), and it can take LSB packages and convert
them into other formats. Unlike all the other conversions, lsb packages's
dependancy (on lsb) and their package scripts are preserved in the
generated packages (when allowed by the target package format). This means
your distribution will need to have a package named 'lsb' for the result
to be installable. (Debian will have one soon..)
* Suggest rpm-lsb, which is the preferred rpm to build lsb packages with.
Use it if it's present, plain old rpm otherwise.
There are still a lot that use shell tricks. Should deal with screwey
rpms and file names better though. Closes: #105283
* Display build logs after build failures.
everywhere it used to use tar zxvf. The problem with the latter is
that, on red hat anyway, tar or gzip seems to be broken, and tar does
not see an end-of-file marker, causing alien to hang when converting
rpms to debs. Closes: #96200
