If you have some troubles upgrading cpio, it returns this error:

Preparing to replace cpio 2.6-18 (using …/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch1_i386.deb) …
Unpacking replacement cpio …
Replaced by files in installed package tar …
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch1_i386.deb (–u npack):
unable to create `./usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/cpio.mo’: No such file or d irectory
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Try to run this commands:

mkdir -p /usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES
mkdir -p /usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES
mkdir -p /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES
mkdir -p /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES
mkdir -p /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES
mkdir -p /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES
mkdir -p /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES
mkdir -p /usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES

And then the update should be working just fine