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Wouter Verhelst
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On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 01:34:34PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
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| Quote: | Why not ship SARGE with unrar-nonfree and provide a
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Maybe in ETCH.
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SARGE $USER are using now "unrar-nonfree" and in
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ETCH we can remove the virtual-package "unrar".
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It's Sarge, and Etch. Please don't yell at our releases.
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Michelle Konzack
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| Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 9:40 am Post subject:
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Am 2005-05-22 14:36:50, schrieb Jeroen van Wolffelaar:
| Quote: | My rationale to do this, is:
- woody shipped with a non-free unrar named 'unrar', and it worked
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OK.
| Quote: | - 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.
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Me too :-)
| Quote: | - 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.
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Why not ship SARGE with unrar-nonfree and provide a
virtualpackage "unrar" which point to the renamed one ?
| Quote: | Once the free unrar matured enough, it can probably ultimately replace
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Maybe in ETCH.
| Quote: | unrar (again), but until that time, I really do believe the free unrar
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SARGE $USER are using now "unrar-nonfree" and in
ETCH we can remove the virtual-package "unrar".
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Chris Anderson
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Re: unrar version confusion
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On 5/27/05 9:16 AM, "Steve Langasek" <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
| Quote: | On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:36:50PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:41:11AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
- rename the unrar-nonfree package back to unrar
- rename the free unnrar package to unrar-free (it can even be left out
of sarge (version 0.0.1 that is the one year old latest upstream
version...))
- get the non-free package that is again named unrar back into sarge
I've done the first point, neglecting the second point for now, and the
third point is an RM decision.
My rationale to do this, is:
- woody shipped with a non-free unrar named 'unrar', and it worked
- 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.
- 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.
Once the free unrar matured enough, it can probably ultimately replace
unrar (again), but until that time, I really do believe the free unrar
should be named differently until that point is reached. I offer my
assistance to get this happening again because of what I've done to
unstable at the moment.
RMs, please review unrar-nonfree 1:3.5.2-0.1, restoring a new version of
the unrar that was in woody to sarge.
Approved.
I had rather hoped to see some feedback from the current unrar-nonfree
maintainer about this package name change, though. Chris, is this NMUed
change ok with you?
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Sorry about the delay. I spoke to Jeroen in irc when the NMU first happened
and I appreciate the changes. As I discussed with him, I had been
considering requesting a similar change but hadn't determined how to go
about doing it (I've also been extremely busy with personal issues).
Everything he proposed and that you've discussed in the bug/thread is fine
with me.
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Steve Langasek
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 11:20 am Post subject:
Re: unrar version confusion
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On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:36:50PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
| Quote: | On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:41:11AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
- rename the unrar-nonfree package back to unrar
- rename the free unnrar package to unrar-free (it can even be left out
of sarge (version 0.0.1 that is the one year old latest upstream
version...))
- get the non-free package that is again named unrar back into sarge
I've done the first point, neglecting the second point for now, and the
third point is an RM decision.
My rationale to do this, is:
- woody shipped with a non-free unrar named 'unrar', and it worked
- 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.
- 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.
Once the free unrar matured enough, it can probably ultimately replace
unrar (again), but until that time, I really do believe the free unrar
should be named differently until that point is reached. I offer my
assistance to get this happening again because of what I've done to
unstable at the moment.
RMs, please review unrar-nonfree 1:3.5.2-0.1, restoring a new version of
the unrar that was in woody to sarge.
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Approved.
I had rather hoped to see some feedback from the current unrar-nonfree
maintainer about this package name change, though. Chris, is this NMUed
change ok with you?
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Jose Carlos do Nascimento
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| Quote: | Hi, all
I read all comments, but I didnt understood what I need to do.
Ola Lundqvist is my sponsor, but if Jeroen or other could upload , I
will be grateful, because Ola is very busyed.
Can I have 2 sponsors ?
You can have 900 if you can find 900 people replying to your requests
still having a key in the keyring  .
Each upload needs one sponsor, it's strongly adviseable to stick with
one sponsor per package though, because that reduces work for the
sponsor and gets you consistency in comments. But it's not needed.
For here, I'd be happy if Ola could sponsor you, regardless, no new
upload needed before sarge releases.
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Ah, ok |
Its very good,, but is very difficult to find sponsors, because they
always are very busy. 
Well,, now Im waiting for Sarge release, and after I will send my
packages to Ola.
About unrar, what need I to do ? did I adopt what version of unrar ?
Jose Carlos
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Jose Carlos do Nascimento
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Hi, all
I read all comments, but I didnt understood what I need to do.
Ola Lundqvist is my sponsor, but if Jeroen or other could upload , I
will be grateful, because Ola is very busyed.
Can I have 2 sponsors ?
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Jose Carlos
| Quote: | I'm the (previous) maintainer of unrar. Jose Carlos Medeiros has offered to
adopt it.
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:36:50PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:41:11AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
- rename the unrar-nonfree package back to unrar
- rename the free unnrar package to unrar-free (it can even be left out
of sarge (version 0.0.1 that is the one year old latest upstream
version...))
- get the non-free package that is again named unrar back into sarge
I support your suggestions of renaming. I also think there should be an
unrar implementation in the next Debian stable. Currently there is none.
(The Debian project distributes a non-free unrar from its servers, but it's
not part of Debian.)
I've kept unrar intentionally out of sarge because of incompability
problems. Changing the package name and fixing rest of the bugs (I've sent
some patches) would allow it go in.
Once the free unrar matured enough, it can probably ultimately replace
unrar (again), but until that time, I really do believe the free unrar
should be named differently until that point is reached. I offer my
assistance to get this happening again because of what I've done to
unstable at the moment.
Jose, have you got any comments? Have you got a sponsor? Jeroen, could you
sponsor Jose if needed?
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:04:07AM -0300, Jose Carlos do Nascimento wrote:
| Quote: | Hi, all
I read all comments, but I didnt understood what I need to do.
Ola Lundqvist is my sponsor, but if Jeroen or other could upload , I
will be grateful, because Ola is very busyed.
Can I have 2 sponsors ?
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You can have 900 if you can find 900 people replying to your requests
still having a key in the keyring .
Each upload needs one sponsor, it's strongly adviseable to stick with
one sponsor per package though, because that reduces work for the
sponsor and gets you consistency in comments. But it's not needed.
For here, I'd be happy if Ola could sponsor you, regardless, no new
upload needed before sarge releases.
--Jeroen
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Niklas Vainio
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I'm the (previous) maintainer of unrar. Jose Carlos Medeiros has offered to
adopt it.
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:36:50PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
| Quote: | On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:41:11AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
- rename the unrar-nonfree package back to unrar
- rename the free unnrar package to unrar-free (it can even be left out
of sarge (version 0.0.1 that is the one year old latest upstream
version...))
- get the non-free package that is again named unrar back into sarge
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I support your suggestions of renaming. I also think there should be an
unrar implementation in the next Debian stable. Currently there is none.
(The Debian project distributes a non-free unrar from its servers, but it's
not part of Debian.)
I've kept unrar intentionally out of sarge because of incompability
problems. Changing the package name and fixing rest of the bugs (I've sent
some patches) would allow it go in.
| Quote: | Once the free unrar matured enough, it can probably ultimately replace
unrar (again), but until that time, I really do believe the free unrar
should be named differently until that point is reached. I offer my
assistance to get this happening again because of what I've done to
unstable at the moment.
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Jose, have you got any comments? Have you got a sponsor? Jeroen, could you
sponsor Jose if needed?
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:41:11AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
| Quote: | - rename the unrar-nonfree package back to unrar
- rename the free unnrar package to unrar-free (it can even be left out
of sarge (version 0.0.1 that is the one year old latest upstream
version...))
- get the non-free package that is again named unrar back into sarge
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I've done the first point, neglecting the second point for now, and the
third point is an RM decision.
My rationale to do this, is:
- woody shipped with a non-free unrar named 'unrar', and it worked
- 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.
- 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.
Once the free unrar matured enough, it can probably ultimately replace
unrar (again), but until that time, I really do believe the free unrar
should be named differently until that point is reached. I offer my
assistance to get this happening again because of what I've done to
unstable at the moment.
RMs, please review unrar-nonfree 1:3.5.2-0.1, restoring a new version of
the unrar that was in woody to sarge.
Thanks,
--Jeroen
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Wouter Verhelst
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On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 05:59:36PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
| Quote: | Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:
Then the new program should still have a higher version number, to allow
people who currently use the non-free program to upgrade to the free
program.
That's why there's the 1: there to increase the epoch.
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Oh, indeed, sorry. I misread and thought the original, non-free, rar had
an epoch of 3.
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Adrian Bunk
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On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 08:33:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
| Quote: | On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:20:47AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
...
Repairing this issue by simply renaming the non-free package back to
unrar and giving the free program a different name should be pretty
straightforward and doable for sarge.
...
$ grep-excuses unrar-nonfree
unrar-nonfree (- to 3.4.3-1)
Maintainer: Chris Anderson
Section: non-free/utils
171 days old (needed 10 days)
Not touching package, as requested by freeze (contact debian-release if update is needed)
out of date on alpha: unrar-nonfree (from 3.3.6-2)
out of date on mips: unrar-nonfree (from 3.3.6-2)
out of date on mipsel: unrar-nonfree (from 3.3.6-2)
unrar-nonfree (source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc) is buggy! (1 > 0)
Not considered
$
Not really an issue for sarge anyway...
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The RC bug in unrar-nonfree is only a small licence clarification issue
that is already resolved in the latest upstream version of
unrar-nonfree.
cu
Adrian
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Steve Langasek
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| Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 1:40 am Post subject:
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On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:20:47AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
| Quote: | On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:58:52PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 03:45:10PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Quoting Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de>:
Why is the latest version in debian lower than the one before?
Regards Nico
Becuase it is, in fact, a different program. The higher numbered releases
are of a non-free version of unrar. The newer releases are of a free
version
that is going into main.
Then the new program should still have a higher version number, to allow
people who currently use the non-free program to upgrade to the free
program.
If the non-free program has more features than the free program,
however, then it should probably have a different name.
The non-free program has more features, and I'm therefore still not a
fan of the fact that the free version got the name of the non-free
version while the non-free version was renamed.
I don't believe it's a good way to convince people of the superiority of
free software by automatically replacing non-free software with inferior
free software on upgrades...
Why didn't the non-free program simply keep it's name with the free
program getting a different name?
That the free unrar is a one year old version 0.0.1 (and there doesn't
seem to be any more recent version) doesn't make it better...
Repairing this issue by simply renaming the non-free package back to
unrar and giving the free program a different name should be pretty
straightforward and doable for sarge.
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$ grep-excuses unrar
unrar (- to 1:0.0.1-1)
Maintainer: Niklas Vainio
320 days old (needed 10 days)
Not touching package, as requested by freeze (contact debian-release if update is needed)
unrar (source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc) is buggy! (3 > 0)
Not considered
$ grep-excuses unrar-nonfree
unrar-nonfree (- to 3.4.3-1)
Maintainer: Chris Anderson
Section: non-free/utils
171 days old (needed 10 days)
Not touching package, as requested by freeze (contact debian-release if update is needed)
out of date on alpha: unrar-nonfree (from 3.3.6-2)
out of date on mips: unrar-nonfree (from 3.3.6-2)
out of date on mipsel: unrar-nonfree (from 3.3.6-2)
unrar-nonfree (source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc) is buggy! (1 > 0)
Not considered
$
Not really an issue for sarge anyway...
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Adrian Bunk
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On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 06:24:50PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
| Quote: | Adrian Bunk wrote:
Repairing this issue by simply renaming the non-free package back to
unrar and giving the free program a different name should be pretty
straightforward and doable for sarge.
Package unrar
* stable (utils): Unarchiver for .rar files [non-free]
2.71-1: alpha arm i386 powerpc sparc
* unstable (utils): Unarchiver for .rar files
1:0.0.1-1: alpha amd64 arm hppa hurd-i386 i386 ia64 m68k mips
mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
Package unrar-nonfree
* unstable (utils): Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)
[non-free]
3.4.3-1: arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k powerpc s390 sparc
3.3.6-2: alpha mips mipsel
It is not even Sarge. That sort of makes it a non-issue for the
moment.
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Which is a result of the renaming of the non-free unrar...
| Quote: | I guess the more pressing issue is what will happen to people that have
it installed under Woody and then upgrade to Sarge and find that the
package no longer exists?
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- rename the unrar-nonfree package back to unrar
- rename the free unnrar package to unrar-free (it can even be left out
of sarge (version 0.0.1 that is the one year old latest upstream
version...))
- get the non-free package that is again named unrar back into sarge
cu
Adrian
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Re: unrar version confusion
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On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:58:52PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
| Quote: | On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 03:45:10PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Quoting Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de>:
Why is the latest version in debian lower than the one before?
Regards Nico
Becuase it is, in fact, a different program. The higher numbered releases
are of a non-free version of unrar. The newer releases are of a free
version
that is going into main.
Then the new program should still have a higher version number, to allow
people who currently use the non-free program to upgrade to the free
program.
If the non-free program has more features than the free program,
however, then it should probably have a different name.
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The non-free program has more features, and I'm therefore still not a
fan of the fact that the free version got the name of the non-free
version while the non-free version was renamed.
I don't believe it's a good way to convince people of the superiority of
free software by automatically replacing non-free software with inferior
free software on upgrades...
Why didn't the non-free program simply keep it's name with the free
program getting a different name?
That the free unrar is a one year old version 0.0.1 (and there doesn't
seem to be any more recent version) doesn't make it better...
Repairing this issue by simply renaming the non-free package back to
unrar and giving the free program a different name should be pretty
straightforward and doable for sarge.
cu
Adrian
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