Bug#657915: file-roller: refuses to open valid archives with unrecognized filename extensions

[Caleb Totten]

Package: file-roller
Version: 3.2.2-2
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,
I've been editing EPUB files, which are more-or-less a collection of html/xhtml files in a ZIP archive.
File roller refuses to open or extract from files that have the .epub extension, but will do so without complaint if the file is renamed to have a .zip extension.
(Incidentally, the same is true for ODF files)

Can we get EPUB and ODF extensions added to file-roller's list of recognized archives?


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

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages file-roller depends on:
ii  bzip2                                        1.0.6-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.10.0-3
ii  libc6                                        2.13-24
ii  libcairo2                                    1.10.2-6.2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.24.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.30.2-4
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.2.3-1
ii  libmagic1                                    5.09-2
ii  libnautilus-extension1a                      3.2.1-2+b1
ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.29.4-2
ii  nautilus-data                                3.2.1-2
ii  p7zip-full                                   9.20.1~dfsg.1-4

Versions of packages file-roller recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme  3.2.1.2-1
ii  gvfs              1.10.1-2

Versions of packages file-roller suggests:
pn  arj                <none>
pn  binutils           2.22-4
pn  cpio               2.11-7
pn  lha                <none>
pn  lzip               <none>
pn  lzma               <none>
pn  lzop               <none>
pn  ncompress          <none>
pn  rpm2cpio           <none>
pn  rzip               <none>
pn  sharutils          <none>
pn  unace              <none>
pn  unalz              <none>
pn  unrar | p7zip-rar  <none>
pn  unzip              6.0-5
pn  xz-utils           5.1.1alpha+20110809-3
pn  zip                3.0-4
pn  zoo                <none>

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