reopen 527388 thanks On 2009-05-08 14:32:24 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Ok. I think this is not a bug in zip 3.0 but in zip 2.3, which you > used to create archive.zip. > > The traditional zip file format (if you don't use the Zip64 extensions) > is limited to 64K entries.
No, it was not limited to 64K entries, but the number of entries was stored modulo 2^16 (possibly as an extension to the official format specifications). It has worked like that for years, and this was *not* a problem to retrieve the files from the archive. Here's what Ed Gordon said in the January discussion: However, since Zip 2.32 archives like this are good, except for this count being chopped, Zip 3.0 should accept these archives without complaint, or maybe with just a warning. > If you managed to create a zipfile with more that 64K entries using > zip 2.3 (which does not support Zip64) then that's a bug in zip 2.3. Note that this version is distributed in Debian/lenny and if the archives are not guaranteed to be re-read with future versions, this is a clear case of critical bug (data loss). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
