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Re: RFS: php5-rar



Paul Wise wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
>> On 27/04/2008, Deepak Tripathi wrote:
>>
>> > It builds these binary packages:
>>  > php5-rar   - rar module for PHP 5
>>
>>  Ah, I forgot that point: is the algo the same as in unrar? unrar-free?
>>  You might need to adjust the section in the former case; and to adjust
>>  the description for the latter, to be more precise about what that
>>  extension can do.
> 
> Looking at the upstream tarball, it seems that it embeds a non-free rar
> library.

I hardly see the ftpmasters allowing this package to go in, as it embeds
some non-free source code, and the extension is released under the PHP
licence version _3.0_ which usually gets pseudo-auto-REJECTED.

> 
> Please change the section to non-free.
> 

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