Subject: bug#62984: Nautilus/File Roller cannot password encrypt for zip compression

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 08:35:31 -0400

Hi,

Csepp <[email-masked]> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> When selecting a file in Nautilus and clicking right-click ->
>> Compress... and selected zip with password, attempting to proceed fails
>> with the message "encryption not supported".
>>
>> The code path this supposedly uses is gnome-autoar, which itself uses
>> libarchive.
>
> AFAIK our libarchive is outdated, it's apparently also why Evince can't
> open comics anymore.

We're now at 3.6.1, while the latest release is 3.6.2.  I still
reproduce the problem.  It seems there's more to it than that.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim