Hi,
Does anyone know the history of the p7zip and 7zip packages and respective upstreams? p7zip-plugins was replaced with 7zip in rawhide which has broken python-extractcode's test suite (19 new test failures).
It looks extractcode does a lot of parsing of the 7z command output which I guess is not the same between the p7zip-plugins version of 7z and the 7zip version of 7z.
I'd like to get this problem fixed soon one way or another, since Go Vendor Tools uses scancode-toolkit (which depends on extractcode) for license scanning, and the Python 3.15 rebuild is coming up. Is there a strong reason not to unretire p7zip?
Best, Maxwell
On Sat, May 30, 2026 at 1:42 AM Maxwell G maxwell@gtmx.me wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know the history of the p7zip and 7zip packages and respective upstreams? p7zip-plugins was replaced with 7zip in rawhide which has broken python-extractcode's test suite (19 new test failures).
It looks extractcode does a lot of parsing of the 7z command output which I guess is not the same between the p7zip-plugins version of 7z and the 7zip version of 7z.
I'd like to get this problem fixed soon one way or another, since Go Vendor Tools uses scancode-toolkit (which depends on extractcode) for license scanning, and the Python 3.15 rebuild is coming up. Is there a strong reason not to unretire p7zip?
p7zip was an old fork of 7zip ported to POSIX systems. It was abandoned in 2017, and in 2021, mainline 7zip was ported to Linux. All the test suite failures need to be fixed relative to 7zip, p7zip has never been the canonical implementation and has mostly been stale since its forking.
Please don't bring back p7zip.
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