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In some sense, the ubiquitous "unzip" has 0 maintainers.

Per the upstream, https://infozip.sourceforge.net/, "UnZip 6.0 was released on 29 April 2009".

But there are not truly 0 maintainers, because distros maintain their own patchsets, for example: https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unzip/log/

(By the way, unzip is arguably not feature complete. The ZIP spec has been updated multiple times since 2009, with the notable addition of the Zstandard compression method, among other things https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT)



zstd is not zip and pkware has long been irrelevant


DEFLATE isn't zip either, what's your point?




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