The alien package in 7.3 is 'broken' in many cases. The first problem is that
the package is built against the original 7.2 perl-5.6.0 versus the 7.3 perl-5.6.1

The second is that in trying to convert a deb package to an rpm I get the following:

smoogen:{temp}$ alien -r sourceforge_2.6-0+11_all.deb 
Warning: alien is not running as root!
Ownerships of files in the generated packages will probably be messed up.
--target=noarch: unknown option
package build failed at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm line 356.
smoogen:{temp}$ sudo bash
Password:
root:{temp}# alien -r sourceforge_2.6-0+11_all.deb 
--target=noarch: unknown option
package build failed at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm line 356.

Looking at the alien web page there is an 'additional' needed for non-debian
machines called 'alien-extras'. I am going to look at both of these packages and
see if I can come up with new RPM etc files for people.

Sorry for not testing this sooner.