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Submitted by lembas on Tue, 09/23/2014 - 11:03

Package unrar-free makes factually incorrect claim in its description

Project:Trisquel
Version:7.0
Component:Programs
Category:bug report
Priority:minor
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:duplicate
Description

apt-cache show unrar-free includes

'Can't handle some archives in the RAR 3.0 format, only the non-free "unrar" package can do that.'

However that is not true, there is now free software that can chew rarv3, https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/free-rarv3-extraction

Legimet:
Wed, 10/01/2014 - 01:09

Upstream unrar added support (2 months ago) for calling unar (The Unarchiver). So if you have unar installed on your system, it will use it for extracting RARv3 archives. Debian/Ubuntu now have an updated package which no longer mentions the nonfree version of unrar in its description and instead recommends unar. (See Bug #731415)

Trisquel could backport this package from Utopic (http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/unrar-free).

leny2010:
Tue, 10/14/2014 - 16:34
Version:6.0» 7.0
Priority:normal» minor

Still in 7.0 Belenos beta

Rubén said in the Developer Meetings over a year ago 'we only support what's on the CD.' Accordingly this will be marked upstream to wait for the updated unrar-free to come downstream to Trisquel in some future release. If you want a backport before that then try Ubuntu, Trisquel does not have the developer resources to support one.

Legimet:
Tue, 10/14/2014 - 17:22

It mentions nonfree software. This violates the fsdg, unless fsdg only matters for packages on the cd (but then a simple debian netinstall cd that doesnt recommend nonfree firmware would be ok with the fsf).

leny2010:
Tue, 10/14/2014 - 23:38
Status:active» duplicate

Then this issue has become a duplicate of https://trisquel.info/en/issues/7969 for which there is a patch ready.