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bug#52477: 27.1; .crx and .crx3 are zip files
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Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
bug#52477: 27.1; .crx and .crx3 are zip files |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 12:59:01 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
Hi Eli,
>> > The first couple of bytes of that files is "Cr24", while a normal zip
>> > file starts with "PK".
>>
>> Yes, and that's why libarchive(3) doesn't handle it. Sadly, I cannot add
>> it to tramp-archive.el, therefore.
>>
>> But there's no reason to prevent it from adding to arc-mode.el and/or
>> dired-aux.el.
>
> If the file doesn't follow the PKZip spec in the initial signature,
> who knows what else in that spec doesn't it follow? The ZIP spec has
> a lot of special rules and formatting requirements, so if a file
> doesn't follow them, how can we support it without knowing its exact
> format specification?
".crx" files are Chrome Extensions, as shown by Stefan. They are
specified, see for example
<https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/>.
Personally, I have no strong opinion whether we shall support them.
Best regards, Michael.
- bug#52477: 27.1; .crx and .crx3 are zip files, Trent W. Buck, 2021/12/13
- bug#52477: 27.1; .crx and .crx3 are zip files, Stefan Kangas, 2021/12/15
- bug#52477: 27.1; .crx and .crx3 are zip files, Michael Albinus, 2021/12/16
- bug#52477: 27.1; .crx and .crx3 are zip files, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/16
- bug#52477: 27.1; .crx and .crx3 are zip files,
Michael Albinus <=
- bug#52477: 27.1; .crx and .crx3 are zip files, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/16
- bug#52477: 27.1; .crx and .crx3 are zip files, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/12/19
- bug#52477: 27.1; .crx and .crx3 are zip files, Trent W. Buck, 2021/12/21
- bug#52477: 27.1; .crx and .crx3 are zip files, Michael Albinus, 2021/12/22
- bug#52477: 27.1; .crx and .crx3 are zip files, Trent W. Buck, 2021/12/22
- bug#52477: 27.1; .crx and .crx3 are zip files, Michael Albinus, 2021/12/24
- bug#52477: 27.1; .crx and .crx3 are zip files, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/22