Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes: >> > Does this actually work? I assumed that our “libarchive” package has no >> > support for RAR archives. >> >> I don't know. The libarchive documentation in >> 'share/man/man5/libarchive-formats.5.gz' does list RAR as a supported >> format. > > Also, libarchive's 'include/archive.h' defines ARCHIVE_FORMAT_RAR and > declares archive_read_support_format_rar(). > > I don't have any .rar archives to test with, and I haven't seen one in > years. > > [...] > >> So, what should I do? Patch "rarfile" out of setup.py or package >> python-rarfile? > > Any feedback? I'd rather package python-rarfile.
I was just curious. We can revisit this later when someone want to actually use python-rarfile to read rar files :) I have no objections to this patch. ~~ Ricardo
