Use unar instead of unrar

Bug #1199148 reported by Ma Hsiao-chun
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This bug affects 2 people
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ubuntu-restricted-extras (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

unar has the advantage of being truly free software: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/free-rarv3-extraction

unar also provides sophisticated encoding handling (for RAR archive and much more) which can be really useful for certain users.

For example, RAR archives created by very old version of WinRAR is not Unicode enabled and unrar cannot correctly extract them.
See also: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568782

Just a reminder, file-roller already support unar for quite some time.

Tags: saucy
description: updated
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubuntu-restricted-extras (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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