Re: RFS: rar (non-free package - I'm sure you all know what rar is!)

2006-01-24 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 16:34 +, Martin Meredith wrote: > Are you still interested in sponsoring this? Yes, I am just a bit overloaded. > > But why do you need libstdc++5-3.3-dev for building rar? You wrote that otherwise the libstdc++5 dependency would not come in as the binary dependency. Th

Re: RFS: rar (non-free package - I'm sure you all know what rar is!)

2006-01-24 Thread Martin Meredith
Are you still interested in sponsoring this? http://debian.dev.sourceguru.net/rar/ Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: > Hi Martin, > > On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 12:19 +, Martin Meredith wrote: >> The package I've just uploaded to mentors.debian.net, [...] > Two minor problems for the first look. Please

Re: RFS: rar (non-free package - I'm sure you all know what rar is!)

2006-01-22 Thread Martin Meredith
Re-uploaded ;) Martin Meredith wrote: > Ok, put simply, the rar package basically contains binary files - which are > compiled agaist libdstdc++5. these wont run without the proper dependencies. > > It was a choice of either adding in a manual depends, or adding in a > Build-Dep for shlibs to pic

Re: RFS: rar (non-free package - I'm sure you all know what rar is!)

2006-01-22 Thread Martin Meredith
Ok, put simply, the rar package basically contains binary files - which are compiled agaist libdstdc++5. these wont run without the proper dependencies. It was a choice of either adding in a manual depends, or adding in a Build-Dep for shlibs to pick up - I went for the shlibs way, as shlibs was t

Re: RFS: rar (non-free package - I'm sure you all know what rar is!)

2006-01-22 Thread Martin Meredith
Ok, put simply, the rar package basically contains binary files - which are compiled agaist libdstdc++5. these wont run without the proper dependencies. It was a choice of either adding in a manual depends, or adding in a Build-Dep for shlibs to pick up - I went for the shlibs way, as shlibs was t

Re: RFS: rar (non-free package - I'm sure you all know what rar is!)

2006-01-22 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
Hi Martin, On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 12:19 +, Martin Meredith wrote: > The package I've just uploaded to mentors.debian.net, [...] Two minor problems for the first look. Please close your ITA with the new maintainer line; close _either_ #280595 or #337940 with the new upstream release line. Also

Re: RFS: rar (non-free package - I'm sure you all know what rar is!)

2006-01-22 Thread Martin Meredith
Oh, and we're talking about what to do about unrar - so I may need a sponsor for that too ;) Martin Meredith wrote: > Hi! > > The package I've just uploaded to mentors.debian.net, also available from > my personal site @ > > http://debian.dev.sourceguru.net/rar/ > > ITA: http://bugs.debian.org/

Re: RFS: rar (non-free package - I'm sure you all know what rar is!)

2006-01-22 Thread Martin Meredith
Hi! The package I've just uploaded to mentors.debian.net, also available from my personal site @ http://debian.dev.sourceguru.net/rar/ ITA: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=349311 Regards, Martin Meredith P.S. I dont like non-free software but it bugs me when software is unmain

Re: RFS: rar (non-free package - I'm sure you all know what rar is!)

2006-01-22 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
Hi Martin, On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 11:27 +, Martin Meredith wrote: > I am currently looking for a sponsor for this package - I would love to be > able to upload the latest version and close down a few of the bugs Well, my point is that I don't like non-free software, but as I have to use rar (O

RFS: rar (non-free package - I'm sure you all know what rar is!)

2006-01-22 Thread Martin Meredith
Hey there! After a discussion with the current rar maintainer - he has agreed for me to adopt the package - as he has not had time for it. I am currently looking for a sponsor for this package - I would love to be able to upload the latest version and close down a few of the bugs Please, email m