Re: how to get a new version of 'unrar' into the official repository?

[Jo Shields <Jo.Shields@comlab.ox.ac.uk>]

Max wrote:

> On 2/13/06, Mark Nipper <nipsy@bitgnome.net> wrote:
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> > Well as Hamish stated, the license may not permit the
> > AMD64 people to distribute the package.
> >    
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> What's wrong with the license?
> What makes AMD64 people different from i386 people?
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> > The current solution is
> > to include deb-src lines for Debian non-free from official Debian
> > mirrors and build the package yourself.
> >    
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> Why not simply to include the source package in the debian-amd64 repository?
> Is it againt the or what?
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> > From my experience, package maintainers are willing to work with bug reports for
> > AMD64 when talking about actual bugs in the packages.  This will
> > at least allow you to continue to grab packages via 'apt-get
> > source' and build them locally.
> >    
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> But missing package is a bug, isn't it?
> If not, then where to complain about such problems?
>
> Max
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Some packages in non-free are licensed only to the Debian project - 
which currently doesn't include AMD64. Hence the limited subset of 
non-free - all licenses were checked by hand, and only those available 
for distribution by non-Debian people (the AMD64 team) went in. There's 
no non-free autobuilder to prevent accidental inclusion of unlicensed 
software.