Unable to distribute datapack

Hello, i have created a small datapack for my server which will be sent underleaf, i am unsure as to why it is not being recognised by minecraft as I continuously get


"Non pack entries the following entries were not valid packs" 


When checking the logs I get 


Path ~/Documents/minecraft/datapacks/yeets-server-utils/yeets-server-utils.zip does not seem like pack



To me as a programmer these are not helpful error messages and become a secondary question on how to improve them for datapack dev


I have verified that the pack.mcmeta folder and the data folder are in the root of the zip file, and all of the json files have been generated with misode. I have also checked again for trailing commas.


I have a gut instinct its my zip program that being the one distributed on fedora linux. 1 but can nominally be wrong on this.


to zip the program I am running zip -r <name>.zip data pack.mcmeta which has produced the datapack that will be attached. 


I am asking for a sanity check but also tools, linters debuggers recommended or built for data packs, preferably standalone and I do not use vscode, I can for this but its not my preferred option. 


Hopefully this is helpful and complete. thanks in advance


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