Essential: yes
Conflicts: cpio (<= 2.4.2-38)
Replaces: cpio (<< 2.4.2-39)
-Suggests: bzip2, ncompress
+Suggests: bzip2, ncompress, xz-utils, lzma
Description: GNU version of the tar archiving utility
Tar is a program for packaging a set of files as a single archive in tar
format. The function it performs is conceptually similar to cpio, and to