Dave, a missing unrar causes a non-fatal warning on startup, and shows this warning (at least in the program's default web interface that comes up for a first time user of the program), but doesn't prevent the program for being started. It does, however, cause important functionality to be missing, especially since it causes the "insert an nzb and sabnzbdplus does all the work" idea to fail. At the same time I agree with you that multiverse isn't the right place for a program that qualifies as free software, and whose authors intend it to be exactly that.
So in the end the choice is between having a package where it doesn't belong (but with users having fully useful functionality out-of-the- box), or users ending up installing a package that misses expected functionality (but with the package confirming to the ideals typical for Linux distros - with unrar as a suggest keeping the package in universe). Imho, both are more or less workarounds around the problem of unrar's being in multiverse that I can't fix anyway. Is the preferred/common practice in Ubuntu for such cases is to keep packages in universe as long as it doesn't cause the program to outright fail to start? In that case, I'll proceed to make unrar a suggest and you could savely close this bug. PLease advise. -- Please move to multiverse https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/333016 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
