Hello Alejandro, or anyone else affected, Accepted libarchive into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/3.2.2-3.1ubuntu0.4 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 on 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-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping! N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days. ** Changed in: libarchive (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: New => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to libarchive in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1830629 Title: Errors when extracting ZIP files. It can not differentiate between files and directories Status in libarchive package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in libarchive source package in Bionic: Fix Committed Bug description: * Impact The bionic version has a known problem when reading file entries in ZIP files, where it incorrectly identifies directories and files entries. * Test case $ wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/+bug/1830629/+attachment/5268728/+files/example.zip $ bsdtar -vxf example.zip $ ls -l The 'ABCD_1234' and 'empty' entries should be directories * Regression potential Check that extracting zips from bsdtar or nautilus work without issue -------------------------------- It has been confirmed that the previous and following versions (3.3.1+) do not have this problem and the library handles the ZIP files correctly. Is it possible to include a newer version of libarchive (3.3.1+) in Bionic? This problem is seriously affecting some of our systems. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/+bug/1830629/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp