On 13 Feb 2006, Max wrote: > On 2/13/06, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The maintainer can't really do anything about this; it's up to the AMD64 > > porters. There's no automatic building for non-free, because licenses > > may not permit it etc. > > OK, then how to draw attention of AMD64 porters to this problem? > I thought the bugreport would do that, but it did not.
Well as Hamish stated, the license may not permit the AMD64 people to distribute the package. The current solution is to include deb-src lines for Debian non-free from official Debian mirrors and build the package yourself. From my experience, package maintainers are willing to work with bug reports for AMD64 when talking about actual bugs in the packages. This will at least allow you to continue to grab packages via 'apt-get source' and build them locally. The long term solution of course is for some folks to help out with the unrar-free package and get it working on 64-bit platforms (and support RAR version 3 ultimately). Please note that I am in no way affiliated with the AMD64 project or Debian itself (although I do provide mirrors for both). If at some point AMD64 officially is included under the Debian umbrella, it might become possible to distribute non-free also. But I'm sure some Debian purists would like to purge the entire non-free branch in general, and I can't say I disagree too much with them. However, being entirely practical for a moment, I too have built the AMD64 version of unrar-nonfree for myself via 'apt-get source ...; fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage' because people are still distributing RAR's and I still need to unpack them. :) It's not a perfect world unfortunately. -- Mark Nipper e-contacts: 832 Tanglewood Drive [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bryan, Texas 77802-4013 http://nipsy.bitgnome.net/ (979)575-3193 AIM/Yahoo: texasnipsy ICQ: 66971617 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GG/IT d- s++:+ a- C++$ UBL++++$ P--->+++ L+++$ !E--- W++(--) N+ o K++ w(---) O++ M V(--) PS+++(+) PE(--) Y+ PGP t+ 5 X R tv b+++@ DI+(++) D+ G e h r++ y+(**) ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ---begin random quote of the moment--- The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. -- Douglas Adams ----end random quote of the moment---- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]