On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 04:30:59PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > My proposal is to remove unrar-free from Debian, for the reasons > mentioned above, and add a patch to src:unar that include a wrapper > script that provides a command-line wrapper compatible to both > unrar-free and unrar-nonfree, so unar can become a drop-in replacement > for both.
This all sounds like a great idea, but I would suggest that rather than attempt to be command-line compatible with the existing tool, you clearly define a set of command line arguments and their corresponding semantics that you *do* support, ensuring that it is an accurate and correct subset of the behaviour of the original tool, and implement that. Ensure this covers the behaviour that is relied upon by the things that you are aware of already (e.g. calibre). Otherwise 90% of your effort will be on re-implementing esoteric or awkward features or behaviours that are not practically required. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130925133252.GA5412@debian
