Hi! On Tue, 2021-05-18 at 09:07:17 +0900, YOKOTA Hiroshi wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: YOKOTA Hiroshi <yokota.h...@gmail.com> > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, yokota.h...@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
