Harald Dunkel wrote: > To convert a *.tar.gz to *.deb alien seems to run several > debhelper programs internally. Problem is: If dpkg-shlibdeps > goes wrong due to a missing *.so file, then the error message > is not shown and alien seems to succeed. The package doesn't > have _any_ Depends in this case.
Alien ignores dpkg-shlibdeps failures intentionally; dependencies from alien packages to system libraries are necessarily best-effort and can break in many situations where you still want to get out a converted package. -- see shy jo
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