Bug#469359: file-roller fails to add .jar to tar archive

[tim richardson]

Package: file-roller
Version: 2.20.3-1
Severity: important

When adding a jar file to a tar archive, file-roller stops adding files
with the error message

tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

The bug also manifests for tar derivatives such as .tar.gz 

this bug is probably a dup of other bugs, but this report is more 
specific. 
I have reported the bug upstream and will set "forwarded"

To reproduce:

1. Open file-roller
2. Make a new tar archive
3. Add to the archive a .jar file


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages file-roller depends on:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.4-3    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  gconf2                        2.20.1-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gzip                          1.3.12-5   The GNU compression utility
ii  libc6                         2.7-6      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.20.1-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                   1:2.6.2-1  library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.14.6-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                   2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                  2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0                1:2.20.1-1 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.12.5-2   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnautilus-extension1        2.20.0-3   libraries for nautilus components 
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.18.4-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  tar                           1.19-1     GNU tar
ii  unzip                         5.52-10    De-archiver for .zip files
ii  zip                           2.32-1     Archiver for .zip files

Versions of packages file-roller recommends:
pn  arj                           <none>     (no description available)
ii  cpio                          2.9-11     GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  genisoimage                   9:1.1.6-1  Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.20.0-1   GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  lzop                          1.01-4     fast compression program
pn  ncompress                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  p7zip | p7zip-full            <none>     (no description available)
ii  rpm                           4.4.1-14.1 Red Hat package manager
ii  sharutils                     1:4.6.3-1  shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode
pn  unace                         <none>     (no description available)

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