--- tar.old/debian/control	Tue Jul 29 17:59:40 2008
+++ /opt/emdebian/trunk/t/tar/trunk/tar-1.20/debian/control	Tue Jul 29 18:00:26 2008
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 Package: tar
 Architecture: any
 Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
-Essential: yes
 Conflicts: cpio (<= 2.4.2-38)
 Replaces: cpio
 Suggests: bzip2, ncompress
@@ -18,3 +17,4 @@
  things like PKZIP in the DOS world.  It is heavily used by the Debian package
  management system, and is useful for performing system backups and exchanging
  sets of files with others.
+