Re: [PATCH 12/13] gnu: Add python-rarfile.

[Leo Famulari]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:31:41PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> > Does this actually work?  I assumed that our “libarchive” package has no
> >> > support for RAR archives.
> >> 
> >> I don't know. The libarchive documentation in
> >> 'share/man/man5/libarchive-formats.5.gz' does list RAR as a supported
> >> format.
> >
> > Also, libarchive's 'include/archive.h' defines ARCHIVE_FORMAT_RAR and
> > declares archive_read_support_format_rar().
> >
> > I don't have any .rar archives to test with, and I haven't seen one in
> > years.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> So, what should I do? Patch "rarfile" out of setup.py or package
> >> python-rarfile?
> >
> > Any feedback? I'd rather package python-rarfile.
> 
> I was just curious.  We can revisit this later when someone want to
> actually use python-rarfile to read rar files :)
> 
> I have no objections to this patch.

Okay, I will take another look at this patch series and probably push it
later today.

> 
> ~~ Ricardo
>