GNU bug report logs - #5475
Archives with filenames with square brackets

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>

Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 5475 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 5475 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, cyd <at> stupidchicken.com
Subject: Re: bug#5475: Archives with filenames with square brackets
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:18:00 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
> Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>,  5475 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:59:12 +0200
> 
> The default value of `archive-zip-extract' can be either "unzip" or
> "pkunzip" (depending on the presence of the executable in `exec-path'),
> but the function `archive-zip-extract' compares with the value "pkzip".
> So the pkzip/pkunzip branch is never executed.
> 
> It seems the intention of the change revno#45347 (2002-05-19) was
> to compare with "pkunzip" instead of "pkzip"

Right, looks like a bug.

Btw, I looked into 7z, and it doesn't have the same problem as unzip.
So we probably should only quote with unzip.
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