Patches follow.
Created attachment 212364 [details, diff] xarchiver-0.5.2.diff As a plus I have converted it to make use of xfconf.eclass.
Created attachment 212366 [details, diff] xarchiver-0.5.2.diff Using the docdir configure flag doe not work as expected because it installs to DOCDIR = $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/doc/@PACKAGE@ I am no autotools expert but it works when using this patch.
Created attachment 212368 [details, diff] xarchiver-0.5.2-doc.patch Sorry wrong attachment.
This is now upstream bug: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=745600&aid=2910636&group_id=140153
well, ideally we would avoid the reconf part. This could be achieved with a simple mv. Upstream seems dead so waiting for upstream acceptance seems pointless.
Created attachment 217200 [details, diff] xarchiver-0.5.2-r1.diff Okay, so what about this patch. Btw, I don't think upstream is dead. According to the svn archives at http://xarchiver.svn.sourceforge.net/ the last commit is two weeks old. Looks like there are syncing problems with xfce's git repo and the sourceforge svn repo.
thanks, fixed in -r1