[Distutils] [Bug] Zip: Compressed size is set to a non-zero value when uncompressed size is set to zero

[Alan Haggai Alavi]

Hello,

.ZIP archive generation using setuptools seems to generate an invalid
archive. The attached archive was created with setuptools:
python setup.py sdist --format=zip

Analysing the hexdump and Zip-Parser's (https://github.com/alanhaggai/
Zip-Parser) output (attached file: zip_parser.out) it seems that the
archive is corrupt. In its local file header and central directory
file header for Foo-0.2.0/bar/__init__.py, compressed size is set to 2
(the compressed data being 0x03 and 0x00). Uncompressed size is set to
0! This has been confirmed using Ark (KDE archiving tool) and a
snapshot has been attached.

More details can be read at the bug reported against Archive::Zip Perl
module - https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=68446

When zipfile was used to create the archive (that is, without using
setuptools) this faulty behavior was not noticed.

Please let me know if there is anyway that I can help.

Attachment files:
  - http://alanhaggai.org/files/Foo-0.2.0.zip
  - http://alanhaggai.org/files/ark.png
  - http://alanhaggai.org/files/zip_parser.out

Regards,
Alan Haggai Alavi.
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