The new tar is conflicting with cpio?! That doesn't sound right.
Perhaps you can try to ask the maintainer of tar what his/her motivation
for making that change was. If there is no real good reason. BUT
FIRST, let's go to the Debian Bugtracking website to see what's up:
http://bugs.debian.org/tar
Ah, yep. There it is. Bug #120884. Looks like this has been resolved.
You should do an "apt-get update" to get the latest list of packages, or
update your mirror. To see the full text of the bug report, go to:
http://bugs.debian.org/120884
Now, if this happens to you again, check for reported bugs first. If
you don't see one reported, and you feel that this is a legitimate bug,
submit a bug report to Debian. Instructions can be found at:
http://bugs.debian.org/
If you feel like fixing the bug and sending in a patch (always helpful).
Do the following:
bash$ apt-get update
bash$ apt-get source tar
bash$ su # Or use sudo as an alternative
Password:
bash# apt-get build-dep tar;exit
bash$ cd tar-1.13.25
# Find the bug, fix it. Create a diff of the change.
# Create your own package, but increment the Debian release
# version in debian/changelog to something like -1.0.1
bash$ dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -sd -b -rfakeroot
bash$ dpkg --install ../tar_1.13.25-1.0.1_i386.deb
Happy hacking!
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