There is no error, in the message buffer it writes "Parsing archive
file...done.". However, the buffer claims that archive contains zero files.

.tar.gz archives work fine.

Tested with 'emacs -q' too, same problem.

GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.9) of
2015-06-08