[arch-dev-public] Fwd: FS#17503: [unzip] zsh completion missing for unzip patches

Thayer Williams thayerw at gmail.com
Fri Feb 26 14:20:56 EST 2010


On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Thayer Williams <thayerw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Thayer Williams <thayerw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 19, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Thayer Williams <thayerw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > The question is do we keep the patch and make this a zsh issue, or do we
>> > > remove the patch, fixing zsh in the process and screwing some win32 zip files?
>> > >
>> > > More info:
>> > >
>> > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17503
>> > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15256
>> >
>> > Can we get one of the broken win32 zip files to verify? I wonder if
>> > bsdtar can extract them. If so, then I say we remove the patch as we
>> > then have an alternative
>>
>> I was wondering the same because p7zip can unzip too and its GPLed. I'll see
>> what I can find.
>
> Attached is a test archive grabbed from Ubuntu launchpad:
>
>    "This file is compressed with a hungarian localized windows with
>    iso-8859-2 character encoding, and it cannot be extracted using
>    file-roller. The error message is caution: filename not matched:
>    01_KB_eln\?k.pdf . The name of the file should be 01_KB_elnök.pdf
>    (with double accented o)"
>
> It extracts correctly with 7z, but not with bsdtar or unzip.  If that's good
> enough for you I'll pull the unzip patch.

Bumping this for feedback.  7z correctly unzips localized win32 zip
files, but bsdtar/unzip cannot.  Is that good enough to remove the
conflicting win32 patches from unzip?


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