On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Dr. Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 12:31:15PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: >> I think the sanity check that fails today is a) free implementations of >> the RAR algorithm exist so this is unnecessary > > I'm not familiar with the details, but I know some rar files cannot be > extracted with unrar-free. So I'm pretty sure unrar-nonfree contains things > that are not free and are required for some features.
You might not be aware that there exists free code to convert newer RAR archives to a directory tree. That code is within the upstream software known as "The Unarchiver". The command-line version of this is known as "unar" and is packaged in Debian main. AFAIK there is no free tool to produce RARv3 archives from a directory tree though. https://theunarchiver.com/command-line https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=unar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_(file_format) -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise