Hi! I filed a bug about this[1], but with the final freeze for hirsute on the 15th, I thought it would be worth an email in case that garnered a quicker response.
In brief - the version of alien shipped in hirsute (8.95.3) is completely incapable of generating debs due to several flaws in a commit back in 8.95.1. 8.95.4 contains fixes for these flaws, allowing alien to once again usefully produce debs. I would argue that, this being a deb-based distro, "generating debs" is one of the primary purposes people use alien for, and it's therefore pretty crucial to the package's usability to fix this. If there's anything else I could do to be of assistance in this, please let me know. - Rich [1] - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alien/+bug/1922996 -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
