[SRU] Upgrade rar to 4.2.0 for precise and quantal

These filenames use the Windows character set, and Ubuntu now uses UTF-8.

WORKAROUND: Use WinRAR (under wine) to extract these archives - works fine!

Hi there,

Thanks for your comment, but it shows a small misunderstanding. I am not trying to extract files from an archive, I am trying to create an archive using rar. The ubuntu environment indeed uses UTF-8, and rar use to be able to handle these filename quite fine (as I mentioned, on Lucid and Maverick it works well). There is a regression on Natty, and I assume it is related to the updated version of rar [went from 3.90 to 4.00]).

Using Winrar in wine is certainly an option, although I would rather use "native" applications.

Cheers,

I can confirm this bug on natty with rar 4.0b3. I tried to pack some directories with Japanese filenames (created by myself using nautilus, so they should be UTF-8) and all archives had just the complete directory-structure (Japanese names OK) without any files.

I removed rar 4.0b3 and installed rar 3.93 and now it works fine.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I use Chinese folder name
and use rar to archive this folder
but the archive with a wrong size
very small size ex. 84bytes
when I change folder name to English
everything is fine

I use rar 4.10 beta 2 and it's OK
you can download here
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

What about 4.20, I'm trying to push an upgrade.

rar package in 13.04 is upgraded and this kind of issues should disappear for 13.04 onwards.

For older releases of Ubuntu, remove rar package manually or install rar shareware from official site.

Please use $ requestbackport tool to request backports which will fill out proper testing template on the bug report of all reverse-dependencies (if any) and generate a backport in a PPA as well as highlight if any changes to packaging are required.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest versions of Ubuntu - 13.04 and up.

This is a significant bug in Ubuntu. If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please perform as much as possible of the SRU Procedure [1] to bring the need to a developer's attention.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure

Now, debdiffs need to be provided. In essence it's just raring package with correct version numbers as per:
2:4.2.0-0ubuntu0.12.10
2:4.2.0-0ubuntu0.12.04

Thanks for patches, subscribing ubuntu sponsors.

Ubuntu Sponsors note, since this is a binary/non-free package the diff are against the raring package to pull in updated blobs into quantal/precise.

Ping?

This already exists in the unapproved queue for Precise, and Quantal - so I am unsubscribing the sponsors team.

Hello Sylvain, or anyone else affected,

Accepted rar into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rar/2:4.2.0-0ubuntu0.12.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Hello Sylvain, or anyone else affected,

Accepted rar into quantal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rar/2:4.2.0-0ubuntu0.12.10 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

$ sudo apt-get install unrar/precise-proposed
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Release 'precise-proposed' for 'unrar' was not found

This SRU is about rar, not unrar. apt-get install rar/precise-proposed should work fine

Verified on precise

Verified on quantal

This bug was fixed in the package rar - 2:4.2.0-0ubuntu0.12.10

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rar (2:4.2.0-0ubuntu0.12.10) quantal; urgency=low

  * Fix Unicode filename issue for 12.10 (LP: #776851)
 -- Ma Xiaojun <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:23:30 +0800

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

This bug was fixed in the package rar - 2:4.2.0-0ubuntu0.12.04

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rar (2:4.2.0-0ubuntu0.12.04) precise; urgency=low

  * Fix Unicode filename issue for 12.04 (LP: #776851)
 -- Ma Xiaojun <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:23:30 +0800