I went to have a look at the Info-zip FAQ page, and the method used in
Chris Chiappa's patch is mentionned for handling zip files less than 2GB
that create uncompressed data files between 2GB and 4GB. From
http://www.info-zip.org/FAQ.html#limits:
In the short term, it is possible to improve Zip and UnZip's
capabilities slightly on certain Linux systems (and probably other
Unix-like systems) by recompiling with the *-DLARGEFILE_SOURCE
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64* options. This will allow the utilities to
handle uncompressed data files greater than 2 GB in size, as long as
the total size of the archive containing them is less than 2 GB.
Since this method seems to have an official blessing from upstream,
could you please apply it to the Debian package so I can unzip these zip
files that Windows people send me and seem to have no trouble creating.
Thank you,
Christian
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