tar: fix bug with sparse files with effective size of 8 GiB or more

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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2013-01-01
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2013-01-26
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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 version 1.26.90 (Git)
 
+* Bug fixes
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+** Sparse files with large data
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+When creating a PAX-format archive, tar no longer arbitrarily restricts
+the size of the representation of a sparse file to be less than 8 GiB.
+
 * Quoting
 
 In the default C locale, diagnostics and output of 'tar' have been