[arch-dev-public] Dropping xarchiver from [extra]

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun May 6 04:23:54 EDT 2012


On 06/05/12 17:50, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
> Reason is that it's buggy and has been unmaintained for close to 3
> years. There's currently one open bug about it [1], which I'm not
> willing to troubleshoot.
> 
> The suggested alternative application is GNOME's archive tool, File Roller.
> 
> Unless anyone objects, I'm going to move it to the AUR in a few days.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29650
> 


I'm fine with that.  I seem to have been maintaining my own patched
version for better xz support anyway...  I just installed file-roller
and it looks a good alternative.

Allan



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