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contrib: update libarchive to 3.7.0

Steve Lhomme requested to merge robUx4/vlc:libarchive370 into master

It contains all the patches we had.

Changelog: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/tag/v3.7.0

New features:

  • bsdunzip: new tool ported from FreeBSD)
  • drop-in replacement for Info-ZIP unzip, not yet ported for Windows
  • 7zip reader: support for Zstandard compression
  • 7zip reader: support for ARM64 filter
  • zstd filter: support for multi-frame zstd archives

Other notable bugfixes and improvements:

  • pax: fix year 2038 problem on platforms with 64-bit time_t
  • Windows: Universal Windows Platform (UWP) fixes and improvements
  • Windows: bcrypt usage fixes and improvements
  • Windows: time function usage fixes and improvements

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