Notes for anyone wanting to build Debian packages of p7zip. ----------------------------------------------------------- - 7z is the full featured command line version of 7-Zip. 7z uses other modules from 7-Zip package. 7za is a standalone command line version of 7-Zip. 7za supports only 7z, zip, gzip, bzip2 and tar formats. 7za doesn't use other modules. Modules are in /usr/lib/p7zip. - These packages of p7zip (source and binary) do not contain the RAR decoder which is released under the terms of the UnRAR license (which is non-free). A non-free so file is provided in the non-free package p7zip-rar available at http://adn.diwi.org/debian/p7zip-rar (should be up-to-date). Note concerning directory exclusion. ------------------------------------ - Directory exclusion only works when an exclude list file is provided and if directories to exclude are listed as relative paths of the location 7z or 7za is run from. - Using absolute directories *won't* work, as noted in #296665.