Re: RFS: python-rarfile/2.6-1 [ITP] -- RAR archive reader module for Python

2014-06-13 Thread Hugo Lefeuvre
Hi, After some messages with the upstream, we managed to use bsdtar[0] as uncompressing software. unar was too limited to use it in the package, and the other solutions we found were not free. The only problem is that bsdtar have problems with some password protected archives. So, we decided to

Re: RFS: python-rarfile/2.6-1 [ITP] -- RAR archive reader module for Python

2014-06-09 Thread Hugo Lefeuvre
Hi Paul, > It looks like upstream is using the unrar command-line utility. The > unrar that supports recent RAR files is non-free and the FLOSS version > of that only supports old RAR files. Please ask upstream to switch to > the unar (no this is not a typo) command-line utility instead, which > i

Re: RFS: python-rarfile/2.6-1 [ITP] -- RAR archive reader module for Python

2014-06-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Hugo Lefeuvre wrote: > It builds the python-rarfile package, which provides an RAR archive > reader module for Python. More informations can be obtained from the > following URLs: I don't intend to sponsor this but here are some comments: It looks like upstream i

RFS: python-rarfile/2.6-1 [ITP] -- RAR archive reader module for Python

2014-06-09 Thread Hugo Lefeuvre
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "python-rarfile" * Package name : python-rarfile * Version : 2.6-1 * Upstream Author : Marko Kreen * URL : https://github.com/markokr/rarfile * Closes bug : #680085 * Programming la