Archive Compression Schemes

The bundled version of zpaq is 5.0, nigger.

Is this what uninformed meme-induced paranoia looks like?

I thought people used tar because it preserved owner and file permissions. There would be no point in tar zipped files otherwise.

Even ZIP can store *nix permissions (but not Windows permissions, curiously). It's really all about the ownership.

Please list the CVEs for zpaq's reference implementation.

Oh yeah, there aren't any...

What about xattrs?

Go back to reddit. Tar deals with files so other programs can deal with only compressing a stream instead of rewriting tar every time.

Tar files with individually compressed members -- why isn't this done in practice?
nongnu.org/lzip/tarlz.html implements this but it's the only place I've ever seen something like it mentioned.
Sure you can roll your own but that's annoying and prone to errors.

I believe this is what zip does.

p7zip is even available on debian-based distros via apt-get.