Feature #5838

Replace unrar-free with unar

Added by Tails 2013-07-18 07:47:01 . Updated 2015-01-31 23:34:50 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Target version:
Tails_2.0
Start date:
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Feature Branch:
Type of work:
Code
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Starter:
0
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Deliverable for:

Description

Unrar-free is working pretty badly and fails to open many .rar archives in Tails. It has tons of Debian bugs: https://bugs.debian.org/unrar-free.

Next thing to do: wait for Tails to be based on Jessie.

When we ship file-roller 3.6 or newer, we should stop installing unrar-free as unar will be used instead. Unfortunately, Wheezy will have 3.4, so that will be for Jessie.

See have archive manager support rar again (Feature #5592) for details.

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History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2013-07-19 06:48:18

  • Type of work changed from Wait to Code

#2 Updated by sajolida 2014-03-11 09:55:58

  • Subject changed from remove unrar-free to Remove unrar-free
  • Description updated
  • Starter set to No

#3 Updated by sajolida 2014-03-11 09:56:41

  • Description updated

#4 Updated by BitingBird 2014-04-09 15:39:04

  • Target version set to Tails_2.0

#5 Updated by intrigeri 2014-11-26 17:44:31

#6 Updated by intrigeri 2014-11-26 17:45:22

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

#7 Updated by BitingBird 2015-01-31 20:07:22

  • Subject changed from Remove unrar-free to Replace unrar-free with unar

More precise title

#8 Updated by intrigeri 2015-01-31 23:34:50

> Subject changed from Remove unrar-free to Replace unrar-free with unar

Note that we already ship unar, so I don’t think that the new title is more precise.
(I didn’t check the rest of this ticket, and it may very well be that it’s out-of-date and lead you to believe the new title would be better :)