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ark package

[SRU] Fix regression ark cannot open 7zip files

Bug #2068491 reported by Scarlett Gately Moore on 2024-06-05

This bug affects 13 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ark (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	High	Scarlett Gately Moore	Ubuntu noble-updates
	Noble	Triaged	High	Unassigned	Ubuntu ubuntu-24.04.1

Bug Description

[ Impact ]

* Ark is unable to extract or view 7z after p7zip to 7zip transition in Ubuntu noble 24.04

* ark relied on /usr/lib/p7zip/7zr which is now gone in 7zip

[ Test Plan ]

* Try to open 7zip archives and it fails.
* With patches it does not.

[ Where problems could occur ]

* This fix should have no impact on anything but ark.

[ Other Info ]

* Fixes (LP: #2051041)

Tags:

Scarlett Gately Moore (scarlettmoore) on 2024-06-05

Changed in ark (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High
Changed in ark (Ubuntu Noble):
milestone:	none → ubuntu-24.04.1

Scarlett Gately Moore (scarlettmoore) on 2024-06-05

summary:

- SRu: Fix regression ark cannot open 7zip files
+ [SRU] Fix regression ark cannot open 7zip files

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2024-08-07

Changed in ark (Ubuntu Noble):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → High

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2024-08-13:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ark (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Rik Mills (rikmills) on 2024-10-04

tags:

removed: verification-needed-noble

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Jeroen (alpenblauwtje) wrote on 2024-11-09:

I suggest to make this bug critical. After installing Kubuntu 24.04.1 (coming from 22.04 LTS) I can't open my protected .7z files. There is no workaround, so I consider this bug critical.

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Jeroen (alpenblauwtje) wrote on 2025-01-28 (last edit on 2025-01-28):

So it's 2025 now. Related bug 2051041 was opened on 2024-01-26. Ubuntu noble 24.04 was even released with this known bug. A year later, and I still cannot open my protected 7zip files. I really can't take *Ubuntu distro's serious anymore for production. Regression is all over the place.

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KDE (kde-community) wrote on 2025-01-28:

Ok, so it turned out the fix upstream did was for qt6 only. It was above my ability to backport to qt5 and the devs wouldn't. There does appear to be a workaround here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468240 I am truly sorry.