[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #60398: WordPress 6.4.3 MacOS Compressed Zip plugin archives "Incompatible Archive" on upload

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#60398: WordPress 6.4.3 MacOS Compressed Zip plugin archives "Incompatible Archive"
on upload
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 Reporter:  Endymion00               |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)             |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  6.4.4
Component:  Upload                   |     Version:  6.4.3
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-testing has-patch  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by room34):

 I'm a plugin developer who is distributing a paid version of my plugin
 outside of the repository and I can assure you this is ''not'' a minor
 issue.

 I was only able to find this Trac thread after a user notified me they
 couldn't upload the plugin, and I spent a half hour testing my files,
 running multi-file find on the WP core source code, then downloading
 different versions and running a diff to find out what had changed and
 when.

 Yes I know this is outside of the idealized open source world of core WP
 development but it's the practical reality of actual sites using the
 platform. Many users are going to be completely lost and confused, and a
 lot of developers as well might struggle to track this issue down as
 quickly as I did.

 Consider also the reality that many sites are ''not'' just using off-the-
 shelf themes and plugins. If someone is developing for themselves, making
 a child theme, etc. there absolutely might be a lot of scenarios where
 this bug is completely breaking people's workflows who will have ''no''
 idea how to find a solution.

 To address another point I'm seeing: it is ''not'' true that only Safari
 users are affected. That is only the case in the convoluted download-the-
 zip-and-then-re-zip-it scenario. But this also affects any development of
 a theme or plugin that ends up in creating a zip file in the Finder on
 Mac. (Which is how most Mac users, even developers, create zip files.)
 Sure it does not affect the WP repositories, but it does affect any other
 distribution of zip files generated on a Mac, which is a practical reality
 for both independent site builders and developers of themes/plugins
 distributed elsewhere.

 Please keep the severity critical.

 (By the way, yes I was able to resolve the issue for myself by re-zipping
 my plugin at the command line.)

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