Ubuntu
file-roller package

File Roller fails to recognize CBR files as RAR

Bug #196171 reported by Júlio on 2008-02-27

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	File Roller	Fix Released	Wishlist	gnome-bugs #519046
	file-roller (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: file-roller

File Roller (file-roller-2.20.1-0ubuntu1) recognizes correctly CBZ files as archived files in ZIP format. However, even with the rar-1:3.7b1-2 and unrar-1:3.7.3-1.1 installed, File Roller fails to recognize CBR files as RAR.

Renaming the CBR file to RAR (foo.cbr -> foo.rar) results in the file being opened correctly. The contrary is the bug being reported here: RAR to CBR (foo.rar -> foo.cbr) is not recognized. The same for CBZ and ZIP (foo.cbz -> foo.zip), but File Roller already recognizes foo.cbz and opens it normally, even in reverse: foo.zip -> foo.cbz is opened normally.

This bug (unrecognition of cbr as rar) happens when the archive is opened through nautilus-1:2.20.0-0ubuntu7 (right click->"Open with Archive Manager"), or within File Roller (Archive->Open). In the last case, File Roller even closes itself, without any warning.

CBR and CBZ files are called so because normally they contain only image files (jpg, png, bmp, etc) archived in a rar or zip format, hence the name CB? (comic book <archive format>).

I'm currently using Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10, updated to day (2/27/8)

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/karmic/file-roller

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Basilio Kublik (sourcercito) wrote on 2008-02-27:

Hi Julio
Could you please attach a sample file so we can try to reproduce this issue.

Thanks in advance.

Changed in file-roller:
assignee:	nobody → sourcercito
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Incomplete

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Jorge Castro (jorge) wrote on 2008-02-27:

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519046

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Júlio (jahernandes) wrote on 2008-02-28:

harry.jpg.cbr Edit (589.2 KiB, application/octet-stream)

A sample file for this shouldn't be needed, as the behaviour described can be reproduced with any .rar file renamed to .cbr. Even so, I attached a sample image, compressed with file-roller to rar format, and renamed to .cbr.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-02-28

Changed in fileroller:
status:	Unknown → New

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) on 2008-02-28

Changed in file-roller:
status:	Incomplete → Triaged
assignee:	sourcercito → desktop-bugs

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-06-20

Changed in fileroller:
status:	New → Fix Released

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-06-20:

the bug has been fixed upstream now

Changed in file-roller:
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2008-07-22:

This bug was fixed in the package file-roller - 2.23.4-0ubuntu1

---------------
file-roller (2.23.4-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    New features and user visible changes:
    - Added support for reading and extracting alz archives
    - Added support for rzip compressed files
    - Added support for creating self-extracting zip archives.
    - Added ability to create multi-volume archives.
    - Added support for header encryption. Implemented header encryption for
      7zip and rar archives.
    - Use the 7z command to read/write zip, cbr, cbz archives, and to
      read cabinet, arj, rar and iso archives.
    - Try to get the mime type from magic numbers if all other methods fail.
    - Now the progress dialog is exact when adding, extracting or deleting
      files for tar, zip, rar and 7zip archives (lp: #18250)
    - Do not add the backup files, that is files ending with ~, to the archive.
    - Operations are now more efficient for archives with a long file list.
    Bugfixes:
    - Fixed bug #343201 – Use p7zip for RAR archives? (lp: #44958)
    - Fixed bug #529395 – file-roller will not open 256 AES zip files
    - Fixed bug #515194 – PK 4.5 Zip files
    - Fixed bug #519046 – add x-cbr and x-cbz support (lp: #196171)
    - Fixed bug #336790 – file-roller can't open winzip-10 encrypted files
    - Fixed bug #539629 – Create archive for Trash/Computer
    - Fixed bug #506698 – 7z Filename (header) Encryption request
    - Fixed bug #542541 – icon lookup code is broken
    - Fixed bug #504584 – Incorrect comportment when extracting multi part
      rar files.
   Internal code:
    - Simplified the way to register commands.
    - Allow to compile with Gtk+ 2.12 as well.
  * debian/file-roller.mime:
    - updated to list new mimetypes
  * debian/patches/60_correct_libtool_usage.patch:
    - use AC_PROG_CC since that's required when using the new libtool version
  * debian/patches/70_autoconf.patch:
    - new version update

-- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:33:36 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package file-roller - 2.23.4-0ubuntu1

---------------
file-roller (2.23.4-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

* New upstream version:
    New features and user visible changes:
    - Added support for reading and extracting alz archives
    - Added support for rzip compressed files
    - Added support for creating self-extracting zip archives.
    - Added ability to create multi-volume archives.
    - Added support for header encryption.  Implemented header encryption for
      7zip and rar archives.
    - Use the 7z command to read/write zip, cbr, cbz archives, and to
      read cabinet, arj, rar and iso archives.
    - Try to get the mime type from magic numbers if all other methods fail.
    - Now the progress dialog is exact when adding, extracting or deleting
      files for tar, zip, rar and 7zip archives (lp: #18250)
    - Do not add the backup files, that is files ending with ~, to the archive.
    - Operations are now more efficient for archives with a long file list.
    Bugfixes:
    - Fixed bug #343201 – Use p7zip for RAR archives? (lp: #44958)
    - Fixed bug #529395 – file-roller will not open 256 AES zip files
    - Fixed bug #515194 – PK 4.5 Zip files
    - Fixed bug #519046 – add x-cbr and x-cbz support (lp: #196171)
    - Fixed bug #336790 – file-roller can't open winzip-10 encrypted files
    - Fixed bug #539629 – Create archive for Trash/Computer
    - Fixed bug #506698 – 7z Filename (header) Encryption request
    - Fixed bug #542541 – icon lookup code is broken
    - Fixed bug #504584 – Incorrect comportment when extracting multi part
      rar files.
   Internal code:
    - Simplified the way to register commands.
    - Allow to compile with Gtk+ 2.12 as well.
  * debian/file-roller.mime:
    - updated to list new mimetypes
  * debian/patches/60_correct_libtool_usage.patch:
    - use AC_PROG_CC since that's required when using the new libtool version
  * debian/patches/70_autoconf.patch:
    - new version update

-- Sebastien Bacher <seb128@canonical.com>   Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:33:36 +0200