On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 09:20, Christian Marillat wrote: > Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes: > > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 12:19:07AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > Thanks Niklas for helping in the replacement of the non-free unrar. > > > > BTW, maybe unrar should be renamed to unrar-non-free, and this programs > > can get the official unrar name. > > No, because this unrar version is unable to unrar 3.x archive and thus > should not replace the one in non-free. A program in Debian cannot replace a program that is not in Debian. As the only free RAR extractor in Debian I think it's appropriate to let this one be called 'unrar', even though it does not support all the features of RAR. At the very least, it should Provide: unrar (in the same way we allow mpg231 to Provide: mpg123). Except in this case the name of the free program is the same as non-free program it's replacing, and what it would provide. So it might as well just be called 'unrar' in the first place. If non-free doesn't get removed from Debian servers, the non-free unrar will still be available to users. If non-free does get removed, then it's pointless to give this one a name besides 'unrar' because Debian won't be distributing anything else that can unrar things. -- Joe Wreschnig <wres0003@umn.edu>
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