GNU bug report logs - #21637
dired-do-compress and zip files

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-Hacker2015 <at> jovi.net>

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 15:43:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #22 received at 21637 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-Hacker2015 <at> jovi.net>, 21637 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21637: dired-do-compress and zip files
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 10:12:29 +0100

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Devon Sean McCullough wrote:
>
>> dired-do-compress does foo.zip --> foo.zip.gz, should do foo.zip -->
>> foo instead.
>
> "Uncompressing" a zip file may (and normally does?) result in multiple
> output files, which is beyond the scope of dired-do-compress,
> in the same way that it does not extract .tar files.

So I think everything here works as designed, and I'm therefore closing
this bug report.

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