Bug#586737: file-roller: No way to show zipfile comment; in particular, please show when prompting for password

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Tue Jun 22 04:44:20 UTC 2010


Package: file-roller
Version: 2.30.1.1-2
Severity: normal

file-roller doesn't seem to provide any way to show a zipfile's comment.
In particular, some zipfiles have a password and put that password in
the zipfile's comment, to bypass broken mail filters that silently
discard any zipfile containing an executable.  Without the ability to
show the zipfile's comment, this won't work with file-roller.  unzip on
the command line will show the comment when listing or extracting the
executable, and in particular will show the comment right before asking
for the password.  Please consider showing the zipfile's comment in the
password prompt, at a minimum.

Thanks,
Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages file-roller depends on:
ii  bzip2                      1.0.5-4       high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  gconf2                     2.28.1-3      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gzip                       1.3.12-9      GNU compression utilities
ii  libc6                      2.11.2-1      Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4                2.28.1-3      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.24.1-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.20.1-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnautilus-extension1     2.30.1-1      libraries for nautilus components 
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.28.1-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  p7zip-full                 9.04~dfsg.1-1 7z and 7za file archivers with hig
ii  tar                        1.23-2        GNU version of the tar archiving u

Versions of packages file-roller recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.30.3-1   GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gvfs                          1.6.2-1    userspace virtual filesystem - ser
pn  lzma                          <none>     (no description available)
pn  rpm2cpio                      <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages file-roller suggests:
pn  arj               <none>                 (no description available)
ii  binutils          2.20.1-11              The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  cpio              2.11-4                 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
pn  lha               <none>                 (no description available)
pn  lzip              <none>                 (no description available)
pn  lzop              <none>                 (no description available)
pn  ncompress         <none>                 (no description available)
pn  rzip              <none>                 (no description available)
pn  sharutils         <none>                 (no description available)
pn  unace             <none>                 (no description available)
pn  unalz             <none>                 (no description available)
pn  unrar | p7zip-rar <none>                 (no description available)
ii  unzip             6.0-4                  De-archiver for .zip files
ii  xz-utils          4.999.9beta+20100527-1 XZ-format compression utilities
ii  zip               3.0-3                  Archiver for .zip files
pn  zoo               <none>                 (no description available)

-- no debconf information






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