Control: severity -1 wishlist On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 02:05:07 -0500 Piper McCorkle <cont...@piperswe.me> wrote:
> Just built the package on my system with that `Depends` substituted > and downloaded a... RAR'd Linux ISO. Seems to work just fine with > unrar-free. Hi Piper, Bastian, unfortunately, just getting a single download to complete with unrar-free isn't enough to make this switch. Files on Usenet commonly come packed as rar files, often using recent and advanced features of that file format. At the same time, an end user typically has no control over nor advance knowledge of the technical details of uploaded files before downloading them, and at that point simply expect an application such as sabnzbd to work with whatever is thrown at it. That makes full support for the rar format an essential feature. While I sympathise with the desire to get rid of non-free components where possible, doing so for the sabnzbdplus package requires unrar-free to be a feature-complete replacement for the non-free version, including support for the latest rar format, encryption, recovery volumes, and so on. To the best of my knowledge, unrar-free has never met that bar. If you think unrar-free does manage to meet all requirements, please discuss with upstream and convince them to handle unrar-free as an equivalent of the non-free one. As any fallout from this change would cause bug reports on the upstream end, I'm not looking to make such changes to the Debian package without their support.
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