Bug#632527: Including patch file causes mysterious failure

package alien reopen 632527 severity 632527 minor retitle 632527 Please document patch feature better Thanks for the information. Reopening to request: Please document somewhere (preferably in the man page) the restrictions on patches, as described earlier in this report log. This could foresta

Bug#632527: Including patch file causes mysterious failure

Package: alien Version: 8.83 Severity: normal Converting the .tar.gz works fine: $ fakeroot alien SynologyAssistant-3.1-1593.tar.gz synologyassistant_3.1-2_all.deb generated But the conversion fails if a patch file is included. For illustration purposes in the following I just create an empt