Bug#721543: file-roller: Can't open .tar.gz archives

[Peter De Wachter]

Package: file-roller
Version: 3.8.4-1
Severity: important

File-roller can't open .tar.gz and .tgz files. When I try to open "foo.tar.gz",
it will show a file list containing just "foo.tar". If I next try to open that
file, I get an message box saying "An error occured while extracting files.",
with no further information.

Oddly, tar files that are compressed differently (tar.Z, tar.bz2 and tar.xz)
open without problems.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages file-roller depends on:
ii  bzip2                                        1.0.6-5
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.16.1-1
ii  libarchive13                                 3.1.2-7
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.8.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.17-92+b1
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.14-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.28.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.36.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.8.4-1
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                           0.16.0-1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a                      3.4.2-2
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.5-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.32.5-5+b1
ii  nautilus-data                                3.8.0-1
ii  p7zip-full                                   9.20.1~dfsg.1-4

Versions of packages file-roller recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme  3.8.3-1
ii  gvfs              1.16.3-1
pn  unar              <none>
ii  yelp              3.8.1-2

Versions of packages file-roller suggests:
ii  arj              3.10.22-11
pn  lha              <none>
pn  lzip             <none>
pn  lzop             <none>
pn  ncompress        <none>
ii  rpm2cpio         4.11.1-2
pn  rzip             <none>
ii  sharutils        1:4.11.1-2
pn  unace            <none>
pn  unalz            <none>
ii  unzip            6.0-9
ii  xz-utils [lzma]  5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
ii  zip              3.0-7
pn  zoo              <none>

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