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