Advisories » MGAA-2025-0050

Updated alien packages fix bugs

Publication date: 14 May 2025
Modification date: 14 May 2025
Type: bugfix
Affected Mageia releases : 9

Description

The current version has some bugs:
- Missing support for deb files that contain files with zstd compression.
- Missing a Require: useful to allow regular users to use the
  application.
- Missing a Require: used by the application for rpm to deb conversion.
Note the rpm to deb conversion still doesn't work out of the box, and in
some cases some deb to rpm conversions can fail.
We have published the wiki page https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Alien with
information about how to proceed in these cases.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28607

SRPMS

9/core

• alien-8.95.8-1.1.mga9