I am running testing with kernel 2.4.12. Get this...
debian:/home/ichbin# apt-get install tar
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
build-essential cpio debhelper debmake devscripts dh-make dpkg-dev
initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.12-k6
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
Need to get 492kB of archives. After unpacking 23.7MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
Whatsup with that?! The bug database for tar seems to indicate that a
recent conflict with cpio has been resolved, but I'd say a conflict with
my kernel is much more serious. I am not able to trace the path of
incompatibility. Does anyone know what's going on here?
