GNU bug report logs - #17663
24.4.50; arc-mode.el has unrar-free hard-coded

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Reported by: Dieter Deyke <dieter.deyke <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 09:06:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.4.50

Done: Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 17663 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 17663 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17663: 24.4.50; arc-mode.el has unrar-free hard-coded
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:18:14 +0200

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Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>     arc-mode.el in the trunk has unrar-free hard-coded. unrar-free is no
>>     longer available in debian testing, and did not work correctly when
>>     it was available in the past. It would be better to use unar/lsar
>>     instead, see http://unarchiver.c3.cx/
>
> Indeed, thanks for bringing it up.  Could you provide a patch that
> does that?

I just installed a patch in master to use unar and lsar.

My patch removes the use of the "unrar-free" binary completely as 1) it
is no longer available in Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian and 2) it has been
reported not to work properly, but I guess that's up for discussion.

Cheers,
Nico

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