diff --git a/general/prog/perl-modules/perl-archive-zip.xml b/general/prog/perl-modules/perl-archive-zip.xml
index c601fc6dfb..8231f7f1dc 100644
--- a/general/prog/perl-modules/perl-archive-zip.xml
+++ b/general/prog/perl-modules/perl-archive-zip.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@
Archive::Zip Dependencies
+ Recommended (for the testsuite)
+
+ (with its patch)
+
+
Optional
diff --git a/general/sysutils/unzip.xml b/general/sysutils/unzip.xml
index b66efd52a2..a44b0e48b9 100644
--- a/general/sysutils/unzip.xml
+++ b/general/sysutils/unzip.xml
@@ -72,24 +72,15 @@
Estimated build time: &unzip-time;
-
-
-
+
User Notes:
@@ -107,6 +98,10 @@
characters in the file's name.
+ These issues are thought to be fixed in the patch. But since none
+ of the editors have data to test this, the following workarounds are
+ retained in case they might still be needed.
+
The UnZip package assumes that filenames
stored in the ZIP archives created on non-Unix systems are encoded in
CP850, and that they should be converted to ISO-8859-1 when writing files
@@ -166,13 +161,19 @@
Installation of UnZip
-
+
+ First apply the patch:
+
+
+patch -Np1 -i ../unzip-&unzip-version;-consolidated_fixes-1.patch
+
+
+ Now compile the package:
+
make -f unix/Makefile generic
- The test suite does not work for present target generic
.
+ The test suite does not work for target generic
.
Now, as the root user:
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 3f5b324b88..3f769665b2 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@
December 3rd, 2019
+
+ [ken] - Apply security and other fixes to unzip-6.0, this
+ also allows the testsuite for Archive::Zip-1.67 to pass. Fixes
+ #12840.
+
[ken] - Adjust inkscape to build with poppler-0.83.0. Fixes
#12858.