Package: alien Version: 8.83 Severity: normal Trying to use alien with the following command fails: alien '/home/joeuser/Downloads/16 March/foo-2.3-i586.rpm'
While rpms shouldn't be named with characters that need to be escaped and many advanced users use backslashes to escape filenames, a user who drags a file from his file manager to his terminal will get the full path name in quotes. alien should support converting files with quote-escaped filenames also. Originally reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/333824 -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers natty-updates APT policy: (500, 'natty-updates'), (500, 'natty-security'), (500, 'natty') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages alien depends on: ii cpio 2.11-7ubuntu1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii debhelper 8.1.2ubuntu3 helper programs for debian/rules ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0~ubuntu4 Debian package development tools ii make 3.81-8 An utility for Directing compilati ii perl 5.10.1-17ubuntu3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii rpm 4.8.1-6ubuntu1 package manager for RPM ii rpm2cpio 4.8.1-6ubuntu1 tool to convert RPM package to CPI alien recommends no packages. Versions of packages alien suggests: ii bzip2 1.0.5-6ubuntu1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii lintian 2.4.3ubuntu3 Debian package checker pn lsb-rpm <none> (no description available) ii lzma 4.43-14ubuntu2 Compression method of 7z format in ii patch 2.6-3 Apply a diff file to an original -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
