zip compressed archives ignore/hide symlinks

[Dennis L.]

When opening zip compressed archives that contain symlinks to files in the same folder/archive, the symlinks are
1. not shown in file-roller/Archive Manager
2. not extracted upon archive extraction

This only happens with zip archives. *.tar.xz archives show the symlinks and will be extracted as expected.

A possible workaround is to select "Extract here" from the archive's context menu (right-click in Nautilus/Files) which restores the symlinks as expected.
However without prior knowledge of this behavior this can cause major problems when extracting archives such as binary development libraries whose build/linking process relies on the correct symlinks being present.

Platform:
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04

Package Version: file-roller:
  Installed: 3.28.0-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.28.0-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.28.0-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I have attached a zip archive containing a folder with an empty file and a symlink towards that file.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Could you maybe also report it upstream on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/issues ?

[Dennis L. (dennis2society)]

Hi Sebastian,
I have tested again on Ubuntu 19.04 and the issue appears to be resolved. Opening the previously attached test zip file in the current 3.32.1 version of file-roller / Archive Manager shows the symlinked files and they are successfully extracted.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Hey Dennis, thanks for testing and updating the bug. Closing then, but it might be a candidate for a LTS SRU at some point