Bug#731415: unrar-free is dead upstream and completely useless

2014-07-07 Thread Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)
Hi, What we really need is another script that mimic the unrar interface. unar provides "lsar" and "unar" command for listing and extracting. lsar can also outputs json format for programs to parse. Someone whould really work on this. BTW, I'm about to upload a new version of unrar-free to use un

Bug#731415: unrar-free is dead upstream and completely useless

2014-07-05 Thread Hugo Lefeuvre
Hi, I'm not sure that it would be a good idea to use unar instead of unrar-free. In fact, unar and unrar-free haven't the same functionalities: For exemple, unar isn't able to read archives entries without extracting them. I think bsdtar would be a better replacement for unrar-free. Then, I me

Bug#731415: unrar-free is dead upstream and completely useless

2014-04-20 Thread Jérôme
Why not make it a transit package to unar, then ? -- Jérôme -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#731415: unrar-free is dead upstream and completely useless

2013-12-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: unrar-free Version: 1:0.0.1+cvs20071127-2 Severity: serious unrar-free is dead upstream. unrar-free is completely useless, since the new format produced by all RAR versions since 2001 (sic) is not supported. It is already a tough task trying to find any rar archive at all that unrar-free