Bug #355
[newton-dynamics] uses unrar to extract source, is outdated
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Description
Could use bsdtar. No reverse dependencies, can be removed if no one uses it.
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Updated by Anonymous almost 11 years ago
unar can uncompress source code perfectly, but source code is very old to compile against our packages, that package was compiled in Arch around 2011. So is necessary put patches to compile it against our lastest gcc.
Updated by mtjm almost 11 years ago
bsdtar is a dependency of pacman: it's always available, while there might be some reasons to not use unar.
https://code.google.com/p/newton-dynamics/downloads/list lists some newer 2.x releases, I haven't checked if they build. We can blacklist it until someone else updates it.
Another solution: ask the author to release archives in free formats, maybe they have also better compression than RAR (this should be measured).
Updated by Anonymous about 9 years ago
- Status changed from open to not-a-bug
newton-dynamics is not available in Arch anymore. It has been moved from [community] to AUR because the maintenance is a pain.