#880448 alien: Large integers in version numbers are converted to floating point format

Package:
alien
Source:
alien
Submitter:
Andrew Gallagher
Date:
2017-10-31 17:33:04 UTC
Severity:
minor
#880448#5
Date:
2017-10-31 17:30:18 UTC
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When running alien against a package that has a large integer as one of the
version components (e.g. a nanosecond timestamp), alien appears to convert it
internally to floating point, with the result that the output filename contains
exponential notation. So, for example:

```
andrewg@fred:~/Downloads$ sudo alien --scripts dremio-community-1.2.2-201710100154510864_d40e31c_1.noarch.rpm
dremio-community_1.2.2-2.01710100154511e+17_all.deb generated
```

One would expect that the version number components would be copied verbatim
between the input and output filenames.

Andrew.