On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > What's the story with tar? The new package conflicts with cpio, and by > extension much of GNOME. I'm not aware of inherent conflicts between > cpio and tar: in my experience they are orthogonal or at least > complementary. Why do they now conflict? >
tar conflicts with cpio (<= 2.4.2-38) The probable cause is tar and cpio swapped a file. Without the conflicts dpkg would complain about a file in one package appearing in the other. I am currently unable to download the source for tar to check its changelog.
