On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:10:51AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Johann Spies wrote:
> > I have a Redhat 7 disk and want to make debs of some of the file
             ^^^^^^^^
> > e.g. netscape 7.5.  But running alien on those debs results in an
> > error message like this one:
> > ------------------------------------
> > only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of
> > RPM
> > query of gdk-pixbuf-0.8.0-0_psheer_1.i386.rpm failed
> > ------------------------------------
> > Would woody's alien and rpm be able to handle these rpm's?
> Woody's rpm does.

Not sure if this has been discussed yet, but won't alien produce
unusable binarys for some packages because of the gcc2.96 and glibc 
saga in RH7.0?

[of course, this is not the cause of this error message]

Regards,
Mark.

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