No support for every ACE files

[John]

Hello,

just a quick note, I had a file that I could not deal with standard unace coming with Ubuntu but I had no trouble with the one coming from www.winace.com. From the debian changelog, I think both are the same program just not the same version.

The one I took from the website is still free software, so I think it should be in ubuntu.

Thanks

[Lionel Montrieux (lmontrieux)]

Thanks for your report. As we're now in "feature freeze", you have to ask for an UVF exception in order to see unace updated. Please read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/UVFStatus

Regards,

[John (john.e)]

Ok I will try like that.
I cannot attach much, as the file is in a binary form, there is no real diff to do ..
But at nothing should depend on unance, I guess it would be safe to update it (correct me if I'm wrong).

[John (john.e)]

Sorry a few typos :

Ok I will try like that.
I cannot attach much, as the file is in a binary form, there is no real diff to do ..
But as nothing should depend on unace, I guess it should be safe to update it (correct me if I'm wrong).

Version is 2.5 vs '1.2b-3' for debian or ubuntu.

[Sebastian Dröge (slomo)]

iirc the new versions had a license change which made the package not freely redistributable... but I have to take a look again so I may be wrong

[John (john.e)]

Here is the new license :

Linux unace is provided free, "as-is". You may freely copy the program.
Distribution is permitted within this original package only.

 Copyright by Marcel Lemke, Ace Compression Software

[Sebastian Dröge (slomo)]

"within this original package only" IMHO means that we can't put the binaries into a deb package but must use their tarball

[John (john.e)]

Oh I hoped it could be put in a deb but with the original files, I don't much about these things ..
Sorry then to ask for something that I could have seen impossible :(

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

Licence problems, needs further investigation if we can really ship the newer version.

[John (john.e)]

Hello,

here is the answer I got from Marcel Lemke (the guy behind unace). :

Hi,
we don't mind if you repackage it.
But please add a file stating you had our permission to do so.

[John (john.e)]

Why was this rejected as we can do something legal ?

[Loic Pefferkorn (loic)]

I've added the info from Marcel Lemke to the Debian bts entry.

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

Edgy Eft is on the way and this still seems not to be dealt with. It is a pitty.

[John (john.e)]

If you look at the debian mailing list, it says that the maintainer does not want to work with non-free software when he does not have too.

But maybe you or I can package it, and hope to jump as a MOTU for that if it's okay.

[Pablo Castellano (pablocastellano)]

Why is not there any novelty about it? If it's not going to be fixed, it's better to remove unace package from repositories. It has become obsolete and useless

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

There is an unace-nonfree package in the repositories now, so I close this bug. Thanks whoever uploaded it.