It was refused by the maintainers of that for being "to non-free"
On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Martin Meredith wrote:
> The problem with updating the rar package is not a problem with the
> complexity of the package, it's a case of it takes a while for me to
> put together the upload for both amd64 and i386 simultaneously, due to
> the autobuilders not liking non-free packages.
You want to read this.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/11/msg00012.html
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