Bug#229256: ITP: unrar -- free utility to list and extract RAR archives

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

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.

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.

Friendly,

Sven Luther