unrar for dapper

[ulrich steffens]

Am Montag, den 06.02.2006, 15:45 -0500 schrieb Lee Revell:
> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 21:57 +0100, ulrich steffens wrote:
> > no need to panic, head over to
> > http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/utils/unrar-nonfree
> > download the deb and install it with 'sudo dpkg -i xyz.deb'
> > works pretty sweet. 
> > 
> 
> OK finally, THAT works (meanwhile I scp'ed the file to a Windows box,
> uncompressed it with winrar, copied it back, and was finished with it
> days ago).
> 
> > why, on the other hand, the nonfree version was dropped would be
> > interesting to know. i could imagine it's a license issue? 
> > 
> 
> I don't know, but this is a serious regression - a loss of basic,
> elementary functionality from breezy to dapper.  If it was legal in
> Breezy it should be legal in Dapper.
> 
maybe it was more of a win32codecs legal in breezy :)

ulrich