Well, one month latter, results are : NOTHING Isn't this a job for a QA guy ??? Ask the correct maintainer of a package to just correct the spec file ? example for lpe source package : file lpe.spec: # Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/ # Name: lpe Version: 1.2.8 Release: 2.2 License: GPL-2.0 Summary: Small programming text editor Url: https://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lpe.html Group: Application/Editors <<<<<<============ +s Applications Source: http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lpe/%{name}_%{version}.orig.tar.xz Patch: drop_gettext_version.patch BuildRequires: slang-devel BuildRequires: ncurses-devel A ONE LETTER CORRECTION