don't try to modify a constant value

RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX gets set.

Alien/Package/Rpm.pm

@@ -78,18 +78,20 @@ sub scan {
 		POSTUN => 'postrm',
 	);
 
-	# These fields need no translation except case.
-	foreach (qw{name version release arch changelogtext summary
-		    description copyright prefixes}) {
-		$fieldtrans{uc $_}=$_;
-	}
-
 	# Use --queryformat to pull out all the fields we need.
-	foreach my $field (keys(%fieldtrans)) {
+	foreach my $field (qw{NAME VERSION RELEASE ARCH CHANGELOGTEXT
-		$_=$this->runpipe(0, "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat \%{$field} $file");
+		              SUMMARY DESCRIPTION COPYRIGHT PREFIXES},
-		$field=$fieldtrans{$field};
+	                   keys(%fieldtrans)) {
-		$_='' if $_ eq '(none)';
+		my $value=$this->runpipe(0, "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat \%{$field} $file");
-		$this->$field($_);
+		my $key;
+		if (exists $fieldtrans{$field}) {
+			$key=$fieldtrans{$field};
+		}
+		else {
+			$key=lc($field);
+		}
+		$value='' if $value eq '(none)';
+		$this->$key($value);
 	}
 
 	# Get the conffiles list.

alien.pl

@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ built.
 
 Be less strict about which patch file is used, perhaps attempting to use a patch
 file for an older verson of the package. This is not guaranteed to always work;
-older patches may necessarily not work with newer packages.
+older patches may not necessarily work with newer packages.
 
 =item B<--nopatch>
 

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+alien (8.70) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Extract prefixes field before extracting scripts so that
+    RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX gets set.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:05:40 -0400
+
 alien (8.69) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Alien's repository has moved from subversion to git.

debian/control

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 Source: alien
 Section: admin
 Priority: optional
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4), dpkg-dev (>= 1.9.0)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4)
 Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
-Standards-Version: 3.7.2
+Standards-Version: 3.7.3
 Vcs-Git: git://git.kitenet.net/alien
+Homepage: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/
 
 Package: alien
 Architecture: all