On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi> wrote: > Just out of curiousity, why is this needed? The unar package in Debian > seems to work for all of the RAR files I have received recently and is > open source. Well, if Debian doesn't contain "rar" package, I have no intention to make it into Debian. However, "rar" is offered for long and now it is staying in a broken state. So we still need to maintain it.