pear archive extraction is broken w php 5.5.9 later release of Archive_Tar should be provided.

[kenguest]

The pear installer requires a later version of Archive_Tar than 1.3.11 to function properly when running via php 5.5.9.
Additional information is available at http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=20246 but essentially the problem is fixed in version 1.3.12 and later releases.

Performing a system update, as I did this morning, reverts the installed version of Archive_Tar back to 1.3.11 and while I can work around this by doing $ sudo pear upgrade -Z Archive_Tar there shouldn't be any need to do so.

As a PEAR Group/Committee member I'd appreciate this issue being addressed.

Thanks!

Ken

My system details are as follows:

Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release: 14.04

kguest@radagast:~$ apt-cache policy php5
php5:
  Installed: 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.7
  Candidate: 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.7
  Version table:
 *** 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.7 0
        500 http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
kguest@radagast:~$

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: php5 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-48.80-generic 3.13.11-ckt16
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-48-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.8
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Thu Mar 19 13:48:52 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-27 (780 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: php5
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-09-26 (173 days ago)