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Author	serhiy.storchaka
Recipients	krnick, serhiy.storchaka, twouters
Date	2019-03-28.16:16:59
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I do not think that the library should limit the compression ratio. Large compression ratio is legit. For example, compressed file of size 1 GiB consisting of zeros has the compress ratio 1030 (and I suppose it is even larger if use bzip2 or lzma compressions). If this is a problem for your program, your program should make a decision what ZIP files should be rejected. I suggest to close this issue as "not a bug".

I do not think that the library should limit the compression ratio. Large compression ratio is legit. For example, compressed file of size 1 GiB consisting of zeros has the compress ratio 1030 (and I suppose it is even larger if use bzip2 or lzma compressions).

If this is a problem for your program, your program should make a decision what ZIP files should be rejected.

I suggest to close this issue as "not a bug".

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Date	User	Action	Args
2019-03-28 16:16:59	serhiy.storchaka	set	recipients: + serhiy.storchaka, twouters, krnick
2019-03-28 16:16:59	serhiy.storchaka	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2019-03-28 16:16:59	serhiy.storchaka	link	issue36462 messages
2019-03-28 16:16:59	serhiy.storchaka	create