Calibre on Debian
Calibre is the prime open source e-book management program, but the Debian releases often lag behind the official releases. Furthermore, the Debian packages remove support for rar packed e-books, which means that several comic book formats cannot be handled.
Thus, I have published a local repository targeting Debian/sid of calibre with binaries for amd64 where rar is enabled and as far as possible the latest version is included.
deb http://www.preining.info/debian/ calibre main
deb-src http://www.preining.info/debian/ calibre main
The releases are signed with my Debian key 0x6CACA448860CDC13
Enjoy
shouldn’t this be done directly in the official Debian package? or the rar stuff can’t be integrated because non-free?
Concerning the rar stuff: I guess this is because of free/nonfree stuff, as it is explicitly removed during .orig.tar building. Thus there is no much one can do besides having a separate repository.