It’s documented in the package description, as this is a packaging
issue, not a bug in the program:
.
Note that ACLs and Extended Attributes are not supported.
Also, on Debian GNU/Hurd and Debian GNU/Linux (but not
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD), size of archive members is limited
to the width of the "long" type, that is, 2 GiB on platforms
that do not have a 64-bit "long" type, due to a bug in the
GNU C library (Debian #317466).
Other limitations are documented in paxcpio(1):
CAVEATS
Different file formats have different maximum file sizes. It is recom‐
mended that a format such as cpio or ustar be used for larger files.
File format Maximum file size
ar 10 Gigabytes - 1 Byte
bcpio 4 Gibibytes
sv4cpio 4 Gibibytes
cpio 8 Gibibytes
tar 8 Gibibytes
ustar 8 Gibibytes
These are inherent to the archive format and cannot be changed at all.
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