Hi, in the upcoming Tramp 2.9, I plan to remove the methods afp, archive and gdrive. The reason is, that GNOME 50 / 51 do not support the respective GVFS backends anymore.
The removal of the archive method means, that tramp-archive.el will be removed as well. I'll investigate whether there can be an alternative implementation, using libarchive(3) directly. But this would be something independent from Tramp. Best regards, Michael.
