Bug#220930: ITP: unace -- De-archiver for .ace files

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:04:15AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 06:52:53PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > >   Description     : De-archiver for .ace files
> > >
> > > This is clumsy. Please say "extraction utility for .ace archive files"
> >
> > It's analogous to the descriptions in arj and unzip.
>
> ... which says nothing of whether those are any good.
>
> "Archiver for .arj files" is fine, but we don't speak of "de-archivers"
> in English. Unarchive is tolerable.

Hmm, do you mean that *you* don't speak about de-archivers?
[ This is the first time I hear about this in 6 years ].

Google says:

dearchiver   391 hits
de-archiver 1660 hits
unarchiver  1240 hits
un-archiver 1500 hits

This is biased of course, since I'm sure many of the hits come from
the unzip package itself. Perhaps we should ask in debian-l10n-english.