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Re: ITP: unrar-free 0.0.1+cvs2007112-1


On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:28:05 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> sdesc: "Unarchiver for RAR files"
> ldesc: "Extract files from RAR archives. This program does not create RAR
> archives. Note: Because RAR algorithm is non-free, it may not be
> possible that not all RAR archives are not compatible with the
> algorhithm used in this utility. This free version can't handle some
> archives in the RAR 3.0+ format."
> category: Archive
> requires: libargp

While this would seem to be distributable[1], the question is raised
there about the usefulness of a v2-only decompressor where a disputable
number of RAR files in the wild are v3.  That was five-plus years ago
already, and I'm sure the number has only increased since.  I don't
really want to deal with endless questions about why this doesn't work
on so-and-so RAR file.  It is really still worth shipping now?


Yaakov

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319831


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