[Bug 333016] Re: Please move to multiverse

[jcfp]

Dave, a missing unrar causes a non-fatal warning on startup, and shows
this warning (at least in the program's default web interface that comes
up for a first time user of the program), but doesn't prevent the
program for being started. It does, however, cause important
functionality to be missing, especially since it causes the "insert an
nzb and sabnzbdplus does all the work" idea to fail. At the same time I
agree with you that multiverse isn't the right place for a program that
qualifies as free software, and whose authors intend it to be exactly
that.

So in the end the choice is between having a package where it doesn't
belong (but with users having fully useful functionality out-of-the-
box), or users ending up installing a package that misses expected
functionality (but with the package confirming to the ideals typical for
Linux distros - with unrar as a suggest keeping the package in
universe). Imho, both are more or less workarounds around the problem of
unrar's being in multiverse that I can't fix anyway.

Is the preferred/common practice in Ubuntu for such cases is to keep
packages in universe as long as it doesn't cause the program to outright
fail to start? In that case, I'll proceed to make unrar a suggest and
you could savely close this bug. PLease advise.

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Please move to multiverse
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/333016
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