[Bug 2062535] Re: zip fails when filenames contain unicode characters

[Rgpublic]

Sigh, unfortunately it's sufficient if there's one single Unicode file
in a huge tree of thousands of folders and files to bring it down. So
zip is basically broken and unusable on 24.04 LTS. After delivering a
broken Ceph version with Ubuntu and not fixing it for half a year, now
there's even a basic command-line tool like ZIP that can't be relied
upon properly :-(

A workaround for now - in case anyone finds it useful - is:

wget http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zip/zip_3.0-12build2_amd64.deb
dpkg -i zip_3.0-12build2_amd64.deb

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Title:
  zip fails when filenames contain unicode characters

Status in zip package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Steps to reproduce: command line
  $ touch ä
  $ zip x.zip ä

  will result in

  > *** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
  > 
  > 
  > zip error: Interrupted (aborting)

  cf. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2165653

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
  Package: zip 3.0-13build1
  Uname: Linux 6.8.6-060806-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Fri Apr 19 12:34:09 2024
  SourcePackage: zip
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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