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bug#17663: 24.4.50; arc-mode.el has unrar-free hard-coded
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Nicolas Petton |
Subject: |
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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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@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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