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

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#60398: WordPress 6.4.3 MacOS/Linux Compressed Zip plugin archives "Incompatible
Archive" on upload
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 Reporter:  Endymion00                           |       Owner:
                                                 |  peterwilsoncc
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  6.4.4
Component:  Upload                               |     Version:  6.4.3
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-testing has-patch has-unit-    |     Focuses:
  tests fixed-major dev-reviewed commit          |
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Comment (by askwpgirl):

 Replying to [comment:97 room34]:
 > Replying to [comment:96 askwpgirl]:
 > >
 > > WordPress is not built solely for developers, nor are all WordPress
 sites built by developers. WordPress is ultimately for the users. We need
 to get our priorities straight.
 >
 > Core team is proving here that it’s possible to be very closed-minded
 when it comes to open source. We lowly real-world devs/users are just
 defiling the purity of their vision.
 >
 > I guess. I mean it sounds petty for me to put it like that, but it sure
 feels that way.
 >
 > I’ve been lucky that I’m enough of a devops nerd that using the command
 line to zip my plugin isn’t a problem and I’ve avoided too much end user
 support hassle or loss of revenue over this issue, but it is really
 putting into stark relief the chasm of perception of what WordPress is and
 should be, between the core team and the rest of us.
 >
 > I’ve given up any hope of a 6.4.4 release at this point, and I suspect
 any further discussion here is just going to make the rift worse. 6.5 is
 right around the corner. But days can feel like weeks in a situation like
 this.

 All good points, except I haven't seen this type of huge bug introduced in
 a patch not fixed in a subsequent patch. It seems due to the view that
 developers can workaround it, then it's not really an issue.

 Would be like if theme or plugin uploads stopped working altogether, and
 they told users to just use wp_cli or SFTP to upload their themes and
 plugins instead. Sure, that works, but no non-dev can do that practically.

 Anyway, 835 million sites use WordPress. As of now 41,750,000 of those run
 WordPress 6.2. So millions of sites will have this bug for quite awhile if
 as many people continue to run 6.4 for as long as they have been running
 6.2.

 The idea that this will go away in a few weeks in 6.5 is a fantasy. 6.5
 does not make this problem go away.

 But I do hear all your other points. WordPress is massive. This has ripple
 effects.

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