Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Steve Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> For those who have not been following the traffic on this bug can >> someone please have a capsule summary about what breaks when you use >> it? Is it the <zipfileset> only which is affected, or are things >> like <jar> affected as well? > > All <zip>/<jar>/<ear>/<war> tasks using <zipfileset> are affected. > Please not that the <webinf>/<lib>/<metainf> elements as well as the > webxml and applicationxml attributes use a <zipfileset> internally, so > they have problems as well. > > The effect is that the files coming from these filesets get their > "external attributes" set in a way that seems to make them unreadable > and unextractable by WinZIP. > > While Antoine's patch certainly fixes *a* bug in Zip, I'm not sure > whether it really fixes *the* bug - no WinZIP to either verify the bug > in 1.5.2 or its fix in CVS.
1.5.3 seems needed - and ASAP. Maybe we should withdrawl the 1.5.2 distribution. It happened to other projects. Costin
