Bug#852625: unrar-free is useless and should be removed

Let me say more clear. unrar-free currently isn't useless. Many GUI programs are still calling /usr/bin/unrar And unrar-free converts those calls to unar. Unless all the programs in main callls unar or unar provides a compatible /usr/bin/unrar, unrar-free are still useful. Please correct me or

Bug#852625: unrar-free is useless and should be removed

Exactly, But the problem is how many other programs depends on unrar's command line. unar doesn't support unrar and that means other programs has to re-program. Take an example, Package "unp" doesn't call unar but call unrar. Yours, Paul On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 2:00 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote: >

Bug#852625: unrar-free is useless and should be removed

Package: unrar-free Version: 1:0.0.1+cvs20140707-1 Severity: serious Tags: stretch sid unrar-free itself supports only ancient versions of the RAR format, and for any archives created with WinRAR during the past 15 years all it does is to call unar.