[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#721961: changes in nested zip files are lost

[Harald Dunkel]

Package: mc
Version: 3:4.8.3-10

If I edit a file within a nested zip file, then the changes
are lost.

Sample session:

% echo hello,\ world >hello.txt
% md5sum hello.txt
22c3683b094136c3398391ae71b20f04  hello.txt
% zip message.zip hello.txt
% zip wrapper.zip message.zip
% rm hello.txt message.zip
% mc wrapper.zip

Search for hello.txt within wrapper.zip --> message.zip,
edit it using F4, save and leave mc.

% unzip wrapper.zip
% unzip message.zip
% md5sum hello.txt
22c3683b094136c3398391ae71b20f04  hello.txt

There was no such problem for mc in Squeeze (3:4.7.0.9-1).
mc in Sid is broken, too.

This is a very serious problem, because we are loosing data
here.


Regards
Harri