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 non-native 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.