Source: alien Section: admin Priority: optional Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>= 3) Maintainer: Joey Hess Standards-Version: 3.5.6.1 Package: alien Architecture: all Section: admin Depends: debhelper (>= 3), ${perl:Depends}, rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio Suggests: patch, bzip2, lsb-rpm Description: Install LSB, Red Hat, Stampede, and Slackware Packages with dpkg. Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg. . It can also generate packages of any of the other formats. . This is a tool only suitable for binary packages.