Hi On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 11:25:53PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Salvatore Bonaccorso > <salvatore.bonaccorso@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I would simply proceed by removing the non-free parts from source > > tarball and repackage the sources. > > And maybe ask upstream to distribute the non-free bits separately. > Also ask them if it would be possible to just run the unrar program > (already in Debian non-free) instead of duplicating the code. Yes will (try) to contact upstream about that. > > Could you please give some feedback on this? Are there any suggestions > > on this? > > Some info in the devref about repacking tarballs: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-origtargz Thanks for the hint. I added now a get-orig-source target to my debian/rules which will also unpack an upstream source and with a fix-orig-source target then perform the operation we need to get the repackaged upstream source. Kind regards Salvatore -- .-. Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom ---------------------- oo| Salvatore Bonaccorso Email: salvatore.bonaccorso@gmail.com /`'\ GPG key ID: 0x518DA394 http://arda.homelinux.org/~salvi/ (\_;/) Fingerprint: 346C D422 1366 FA52 D898 5666 BD45 6753 518D A394
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