Sabnzbdplus has problems with RAR 5 files

[Roberto Pensa]

1 System: Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) (64 bit)
2. Kernel Linux 3.11.0-23-generic
3. GNOME 3.4.2
4. Installed with software center

The package sabnzbdplus should handle WIN RAR 5.0 files. Somtimes it works like this:
At the beginning of download the programm stops with the warning: "RAR file encrypted download paused"
After the repair of the cue, the download must restarted manually clicking on the pause button.
Somtimes it does not work at all, because after the download the program shows the error: unusable RAR file
Unpacking the RAR 5 files with WIN RAR 5 works so the files are ok but not the inbuilt RAR support.

[jcfp (jcfp)]

Sabnzbd+ versions >= 0.7.17 have (basic) support for rar5 format, when used alongside unrar >= 5. The latter is available in trusty/14.04 and newer; the former isn't in Ubuntu as yet but will be uploaded to Debian in time for utopic/14.10.

On older Ubuntu releases, neither is available out of the box in a sufficiently new version. That means you will have to find or create a (private) backport. For sab itself I maintain a ppa at https://launchpad.net/~jcfp/+archive/ppa - which leaves just unrar to figure out by yourself.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package sabnzbdplus - 0.7.18-1

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sabnzbdplus (0.7.18-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    + adds (basic) support for rar5 format. (LP: #1330146)
  * Init script:
    + rework to use new upstream --pidfile option.
    + set system locale in a bid to prevent encoding issues.
  * Update man page for new --pidfile option.
  * Add debian/missing-sources for various minified javascripts.
  * Copyright:
    + add RateIt jquery rating plugin, OrderedDict backport.
    + bump years for both upstream and packaging.
    + include copyright info for d/missing-sources.
    + correct jquery tooltip license info.
    + stop referring to symlink licenses.
  * Add patch 09_remove_external_resource_from_wizard.diff: prevent
    loading an external resource, replace with a plain text link.
  * Switch debian/rules to dh sequencer.
  * Set compat level to 9.
  * Build-depends:
    + add dh-python, now a separate package.
    + dump version requirement for python (no longer needed).
    + bump debhelper version to >= 9.
  * Recommend consolekit and promote python-dbus to recommended
    (from suggested), to ensure support for end-of-queue actions is
    available. (Closes: #706402)
  * Lintian:
    + Append an asteriks to the existing override to compensate for
      the description added to the embedded-javascript-library tag.
    + Override init.d-script-sourcing-without-test (false positive).
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.6 (no changes needed).

 -- JCF Ploemen (jcfp) <email address hidden> Tue, 07 Oct 2014 10:53:34 +0000