Bug#858431: strip-nondeterminism does not normalize Unix ownership from zip archives

[Chris Lamb]

tags 858431 + wontfix
thanks

Santiago Vila wrote:

> > What I expect to see, and believe should happen, is all UIDs and GIDs in
> > the zip archive become 0, owned by root.
> 
> That would be inconsistent with the current behaviour with tarballs,
> which also contain UIDs and GIDs and AFAIK are kept untouched by
> strip-nondeterminism.

Indeed, and given that we would want the behaviour to be consistent across
archive formats and I think this goes beyond what strip-nondetermism should
do, I am marking this as wontfix.


Regards,

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