Thank you for your bug report. This is probably something that upstream should decide. I opened a bug upstream here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340050
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #340050 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340050 ** Also affects: fileroller (upstream) Severity: Unknown Priority: Unknown Status: Unknown -- tar permissions are no preserved https://launchpad.net/bugs/40536 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs