Bug#988689: ITP: 7zip -- 7-Zip file archiver

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Tue, 2021-05-18 at 09:07:17 +0900, YOKOTA Hiroshi wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: YOKOTA Hiroshi <yokota.hgml@gmail.com>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, yokota.hgml@gmail.com
> 
> * Package name    : 7zip
>   Version         : 21.02
>   Upstream Author : Igor Pavlov
> * URL             : https://www.7-zip.org/
> * License         : LGPL with "unRAR license restriction" (
> https://www.7-zip.org/license.txt )
>   Programming Lang: C, C++, Asm
>   Description     : 7-Zip file archiver
> 
> 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
[… description …]

> note: "p7zip-full" package provides full-featured, but older 7-Zip archiver.
>       This "7zip" package provides stand-alone style archiver only, but
>       newer 7-Zip archiver.
>       "7zip" package is in "non-free" section because "unRAR" code is not
>       compatible with DFSG.
> 
> Current packaging state is held on https://salsa.debian.org/yokota/7zip .

It looks like we already have the 7-Zip unrar code split on its own
source package in non-free (p7zip-rar). Have you contacted the p7zip
maintainer (CCed) to check what might be blocking updating the packages
to a newer upstream version, instead of duplicating them? Perhaps you
could collaborate on that instead?

Thanks,
Guillem