At the following URL there are several patches for removing RAR support from Calibre: https://gitlab.com/libreforks/calibre/tags The goal is to make Calibre 100% free software, since RAR is a proprietary format. I modified the latest available Gentoo ebuild in order to apply the 3.15.0 libre patch. I had to modify the libre patch by adding a newline at line 257, otherwise patch complains it is malformed. I placed the patch in ${FILESDIR}, but Repoman complains it is too large for that. I also had to remove the other already existing patches, because it seems they conflict with the libre patch. Since this is Gentoo we may add instead a "rar" USE flag to calibre, so people may decide themselves if they need it or not.
Created attachment 531278 [details] calibre-3.15.0.ebuild
According to bug #622856, app-text/calibre currently does not even build RAR support in Gentoo. Can you please have a look at this?
Today I noticed unrar code in Calibre has been removed a long ago: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/d305656bb4923c3737b3f143416c0e3ab682b9a5 At https://gitlab.com/libreforks/calibre there are no patches for recent versions of Calibre. The last one is for 3.20.0 and was released 5 months ago. Calibre 3.30.0 has been released a few days ago.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=cd844f0e299db13582160aa5a84b3f9720d7ba5c commit cd844f0e299db13582160aa5a84b3f9720d7ba5c Author: Francesco Turco <fturco@fastmail.fm> AuthorDate: 2018-08-28 18:28:55 +0200 Commit: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-08-28 09:46:45 -0700 app-text/calibre: remove unRAR license Calibre developers removed unrar code with the following commit: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/d305656bb4923c3737b3f143416c0e3ab682b9a5 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/9721
