From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34455) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e75m4-0006d2-D0 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:26:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e75lz-0003th-Fp for guix-patches@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:26:08 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:51582) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e75lz-0003tK-6y for guix-patches@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:26:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e75lx-0002bh-JW for guix-patches@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:26:02 -0400 Subject: [bug#28972] [PATCH] gnu: Remove unrar. Resent-Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:25:52 -0400 From: Leo Famulari Message-ID: <20171024202552.GA4719@jasmine.lan> References: <20171024190743.t7yhrfcrltrjlbt4@abyayala> <8be5d04d-4ce1-3b8b-31df-a68bdff4da4e@cock.li> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8be5d04d-4ce1-3b8b-31df-a68bdff4da4e@cock.li> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: nee Cc: 28972@debbugs.gnu.org --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:09:00PM +0200, nee wrote: > Am 24.10.2017 um 21:07 schrieb ng0: > > Leo Famulari transcribed 1.4K bytes: > >> This package is abandoned upstream and contains serious bugs: > >=20 > > Oh oh. Do we have another package providing the binar(ies) and function > > unrar has? > >=20 > Is anything actually using unrar? >=20 > grep -r unrar in guix-git/gnu/ gives me no relevant hits >=20 > I tried to add it as input for the mcomix package when I packaged > mcomix, but it was unusable and couldn't open a single file. > I remember that it behaved weird and unexpected and sometimes asked for > passwords on stdin when the file wasn't encrypted. >=20 > It is very outdated and the rar standard it supports has been replaced > around 15 years ago. Agreed, I don't know if this software is useful anymore, and it isn't used by any of our packages. > The closest replacement that I know is libarchive, it's not a > commandline utility like unrar, but it is used in file-roller which can > open some rars. There is also the Python module packaged in Guix as python-rarfile. Is anyone using this unrar package? Please speak up. And, please check if file-roller will work for you. --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEsFFZSPHn08G5gDigJkb6MLrKfwgFAlnvodAACgkQJkb6MLrK fwgrvQ//TErt/q4D9FNbeVhz1ax7f8duBQy3+8aBjCJlUpYcTQqsG4xXwcXJsO/x LKJAGxBT2lQyTHZn0QXgkyjcuZFhDLUWkljYXUvEu+5Sdl/jIOgQoiLO6a2n+pLP f2UUNkcB7NWgzgp9CfasJXBE6n0Iaraq4g9vXMvkbNxpT2KhrOiyZA9e5xxM3kPo obS1q6nQjYErsFdOQrL68BRRr3ih2+gPIwcuaBbI5eqtdvoAr9qBrD5fmod5EKr8 aLVAlOAY5y6cJTJlQeDNCO55KqAqnuB2hk2iFOUYfOG6LxrffuoF2c/q63vfOfRb Wl5SkwENpbqqO6mPCYfahJWJbiWIKJWgo1D5cKedBcJGsVUB7pUKycAznzb5/v5K Ha1F7u/aekMmq1bnEcZUAkI4n+q/ewNDmNcMGa25k2TlfE2nc8EuZxl/WQ7pOiqY TKhaGWEluoUtllrHa+9VJ/fKK6xLoxZ7tLw62Rrmsz3i8TFDdKWXrvwGSU2ayDa2 MOqIhQLvyq0ptLiQqF1s5pNt5esOHZ+uCMpLUDutrK9x761FtdJyx4ZnrbyE1sjv IETnuukl7Qgep4f7voaR5MNW1lzsUS3I5upce5vABQ+cP5mHl2+9hMsiCcwSO7II /SrtBNOHArnWBNIAbv+65CuZpTb2Wq2jAlCRjE1F0GzAxFcAlZU= =bEBZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR--