and note that unlike tar, cp -a will actually *handle* pathnames over 100 characters (of course, dpkg won't have installed any, but they may be around for other reasons...) I used the tar approach for years, but cp -a turns out to be much more reliable (and I can fall back to tar if I have to -- knowing that I have to keep an eye on it as well and diff the trees later...)
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