Re: [Fsf-Debian] rar/unrar

2012-10-18 Thread Michał Masłowski
And apparently there is a free software program unar [3] that can replace the unrar part. unar and lsar have a different interface than unrar (or unrar-free) used by GUI archivers. On Parabola GNU/Linux-libre a script called ununrar is used to call unar with appropriate arguments and print

Re: [Fsf-Debian] rar/unrar

2012-10-18 Thread John Sullivan
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: evince only 'Suggests' unrar, so it at least won't get installed automatically; although you're right, why is it doing that. Please file a bug report requesting that the unrar suggests be replaced by

Re: [Fsf-Debian] rar/unrar

2012-10-18 Thread John Sullivan
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:49 AM, John Sullivan wrote: Where is this contesting happening? First I noticed was the clamav bug I mentioned earlier in the thread. I also started a private thread between the RAR folks and The Unarchiver author that was CCed

Re: [Fsf-Debian] rar/unrar

2012-10-17 Thread Daniel Martí
Hello Bryan, On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 04:42:03PM -0400, Bryan Quigley wrote: I think it makes sense to remove both the unrar and rar nonfree programs from the nonfree repo in either Wheezy or Wheezy+1. If not, we should investigate why so many users are installing unrar/rar. Unrar has a

Re: [Fsf-Debian] rar/unrar

2012-10-17 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 17-10-12 22:42, Bryan Quigley schreef: Hi All, Continuing my attempt to find non-free programs that we no longer need unrar/rar came to my attention. It's some of the most popular installed non-free packages in both Debian [1 http://popcon.debian.org/non-free/by_inst] and Ubuntu [2

Re: [Fsf-Debian] rar/unrar

2012-10-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Daniel Martí wrote: As far as I'm concerned the unrar-nonfree package is kept since the free software replacement is not fully functional in all cases. For instance, if I recall correctly the free one doesn't handle rar files with passwords very well. Are

Re: [Fsf-Debian] rar/unrar

2012-10-17 Thread Clint Adams
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 07:53:06AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: This issue is preventing clamav folks from using unar code https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=2907 That is some peculiar reasoning. ___ Fsf-collab-discuss mailing list