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Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ?

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On Thu 23 Aug 2018 at 07:58:33 (+0530), shirish शिरीष wrote:
> On 21/08/2018, Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> wrote:

> >> Does anybody know why unrar-free is till in Debian repo. when we have
> >> unar which does the same or more (support for rarv5 among others) . I
> >> do get the idea that we should have alternatives for any application
> >> or is there something more that I don't know ?

> The last commit to unrar-free was done in 2004 and that 's about  it .
> You can find the commits in /usr/share/doc/unrar-free/changelog.gz

Well, it's still getting security updates; I see one dated 2017-09-07.

> So the question is, are there any corner cases where unrar-free excels
> unar and if not  can or should it  be removed from the Debian repo. ?

As it happens, there was a question that illustrated differences
in their features just yesterday:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/463926/extracting-rar-files-with-unrar-free-and-unar-need-progress-completion-and-ti

so I guess it depends what people's priorities are. Why would you
want it removed?

Cheers,
David.

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what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ? shirish शिरीष <shirishag75@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 20:00 +0200
  Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2018-08-21 20:10 +0200
    Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-21 20:20 +0200
    Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ? Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2018-08-21 20:20 +0200
  Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-21 20:10 +0200
  Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-21 20:10 +0200
  Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2018-08-21 20:10 +0200
  Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ? Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 20:30 +0200
    Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ? shirish शिरीष <shirishag75@gmail.com> - 2018-08-23 04:30 +0200
      Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-23 04:50 +0200
      Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-23 07:50 +0200

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