thanks for your report Chris, and for the patch Seb, but this seems to have been fixed by upstream in xarchiver 0.3.2 which was uploaded on Apr 28th.
** Changed in: xarchiver (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- recent update fails to install https://launchpad.net/bugs/44210 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs