The alien version in tree can't convert gentoo binary packages to .deb. Renaming to .tar.bz2 allows it to work. I've got a patch for it, will attach shortly, but upstream seems dead? So filing a bug to track it.
Created attachment 491316 [details, diff] patch Fixes xpak, and adds more common extensions. I didn't add xz as I didn't have one handy to test and it's late. It would probably work too.
have you tried to contact upstream?
(In reply to Thomas Raschbacher from comment #2) > have you tried to contact upstream? The new upstream seems dead as well, their source directory is empty: https://sourceforge.net/p/alien-pkg-convert/code/?source=navbar austin@austin2:~/src$ svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/alien-pkg-convert/code/ alien-pkg-convert-code Checked out revision 0. austin@austin2:~/src$ svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/alien-pkg-convert/code/ alien-pkg-convert-code Checked out revision 0.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=1a7acfd7f96271609e2c6df77097da4d2f796401 commit 1a7acfd7f96271609e2c6df77097da4d2f796401 Author: Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-05-23 12:38:55 +0000 Commit: Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-05-23 12:40:06 +0000 app-arch/alien: add support for more tar extensions. Courtesy of Austin English <wizardedit@gentoo.org>. I've also slipped in a EAPI 6 update whilst at it. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/629524 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.24, Repoman-2.3.6 app-arch/alien/alien-8.95-r1.ebuild | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++ .../alien/files/alien-8.95-tar-extensions.patch | 25 ++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+)
