Bug 15807

Summary: Remove the "zip" recipe from core (unmaintained upstream)
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal>
Component: coreAssignee: Randy MacLeod <randy.macleod>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Medium+ CC: meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, mingli.yu, randy.macleod, yoann.congal
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 6.1 M1   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Yes (doc changes required)

Description Yoann Congal 2025-03-21 23:20:37 UTC
https://infozip.sourceforge.net/Zip.html#Release => last release is from 2008.

We need to take care of users of this recipe and/or find an alternative.
Comment 1 Randy MacLeod 2025-03-27 14:34:53 UTC
There is p7zip and minizip-ng that someone should investigate.