Contacted author to report bug upstream, he identified the problem quickly. There is a trailing space on the $version in the debian control file, which works for .deb, but chokes for rpm.
My problem is fixed, but the bug is still there. Ideally, alien should strip off trailing spaces. -- alien fails to convert deb to rpm https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/388052 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs