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

[Reiner Herrmann]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 07:29:03PM +0000, Chris Lamb 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.

tarballs are currently not touched/supported at all 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.

I think it would be more consistent to also normalize UID/GID in zip files,
as this is some non-determinism (that should be stripped).
And strip-nondeterminism currently also normalizes permissions to 755/644,
which is a bit related to UID/GID.
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