Comment 4 for bug 149236

I've sent the patch by karthik to the maintainer of the hellanzb package along with other minor changes. While adding unrar to the dependencies of hellanzb would probably be the wisest choice from a the user's point of view, I support the decision of the maintainer to leave the installation of unrar up to the user and therefore keeping the package in main (or universe in Ubuntu). Someone who knows how to edit the HellaNZB configuration file will most probably know how to install unrar. And SKIP_UNRAR has been set to True for quite a long time anyway.

As for LottaNZB, we'll probably make sure that SKIP_UNRAR is automatically set to False if unrar is installed and provide a useful hint to the user if not. This will also close http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523851 LottaNZB was suggested to be moved to contrib.