Source: alien
Section: admin
Priority: extra
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>
Standards-Version: 2.4.1.4

Package: alien
Architecture: all
Section: admin
Depends: debhelper, perl
Recommends: rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make
Suggests: patch, bzip2
Description: Install Red Hat, Stampede, and Slackware Packages with dpkg.
 Alien allows you to convert Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages into
 Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg. 
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 It can also convert into Slackware, Red Hat, and Stampede packages.
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 This is a tool only suitable for binary packages.
