Re: Bug#229256: ITP: unrar -- free utility to list and extract RAR archives
Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 12:19:07AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 12:08:15AM +0200, Niklas Vainio wrote:
>> > This program uses unrarlib (http://www.unrarlib.org/), which is based on the
>> > non-free unrar from RARlabs but has been released under GPL with
>> > permission from RARlabs. I also try to improve the program a bit and fix
>> > some bugs I found before I release the package.
>>
>> Note that unrarlib will only unpack RAR 2.x archives, not the latest RAR 3.x
>> archives (at least it couldn't the last time I checked). Thus, it can't
>> replace unrar from non-free completely.
>
> Yet.
Never. The last unrarlib release is 2 years ago.
> But still, it is good to have this in mind.
>
> Thanks Niklas for helping in the replacement of the non-free unrar.
>
> BTW, maybe unrar should be renamed to unrar-non-free, and this programs
> can get the official unrar name.
No, because this unrar version is unable to unrar 3.x archive and thus
should not replace the one in non-free.
Christian
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