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[Expired for file-roller (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for
60 days.]

** Changed in: file-roller (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  file-roller fails to decompress tar.gz or tar.bz2 archive on FAT
  drives

Status in “file-roller” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: file-roller

  When trying to decompress a tar.bz2 or tar.gz archive on FAT drive,
  file-roller quits with following error message

  tar: {filename goes here}: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: Operation not permitted
  tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

  despite being able to decompress all files - if I'm quick, I can open
  them in the temporary directory created by file-roller, but as soon as
  the decompression process ends, file-roller deletes them, so I'm left
  with no files at all.

  Suggested solutions:
  - File-roller should run tar without -p option
  - As above, but only when the target drive is FAT (or any other that doesn't support POSIX permissions)
  - Decompression errors should not delete all the files, but the user should be given the option: "Decompression process ended with following errors. Do you wish to remove the partially-decompressed files?" [Yes/No]
  - File-roller should check if the errors generated by tar are fatal or not and react accordingly

  My FAT drive is mounted as following:
  /dev/sda2 on /media/ACER type vfat (rw,iocharset=utf8,dmask=000,fmask=0111,utf8=1,flush)

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