Am 2005-05-22 14:36:50, schrieb Jeroen van Wolffelaar:
> My rationale to do this, is:
>
> - woody shipped with a non-free unrar named 'unrar', and it worked
OK.
> - the free version is not functionally equivalent yet, of the .rar files
> in the wild, I couldn't actually find a single one that was
> unpackeable with the free unrar.
Me too :-)
> - So, it's too late now to have sarge ship with a free alternative,
> because development of that one simply hasn't reached a functionally
> (nearly-?) equivalent version. For etch, let's see, but for sarge,
> let's just maintain the situation as it was in woody: a non-free
> 'unrar' for people not objecting to non-free who want to unrar files.
Why not ship SARGE with unrar-nonfree and provide a
virtualpackage "unrar" which point to the renamed one ?
> Once the free unrar matured enough, it can probably ultimately replace
Maybe in ETCH.
> unrar (again), but until that time, I really do believe the free unrar
SARGE $USER are using now "unrar-nonfree" and in
ETCH we can remove the virtual-package "unrar".
> Thanks,
> --Jeroen
Greetings
Michelle
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