diff -pur cpio-2.6/src/extern.h cpio-2.6-fix/src/extern.h
--- cpio-2.6/src/extern.h	2004-09-08 10:49:57.000000000 +0000
+++ cpio-2.6-fix/src/extern.h	2005-03-10 14:45:20.000000000 +0000
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ extern char output_is_special;
 extern char input_is_seekable;
 extern char output_is_seekable;
 extern char *program_name;
+extern mode_t sys_umask;
 extern int (*xstat) ();
 extern void (*copy_function) ();
 
diff -pur cpio-2.6/src/global.c cpio-2.6-fix/src/global.c
--- cpio-2.6/src/global.c	2004-09-08 10:23:44.000000000 +0000
+++ cpio-2.6-fix/src/global.c	2005-03-10 14:47:11.000000000 +0000
@@ -195,6 +195,9 @@ bool to_stdout_option = false;
 /* The name this program was run with.  */
 char *program_name;
 
+/* Debian hack to make the -O option honor the umask.  */
+mode_t sys_umask;
+
 /* A pointer to either lstat or stat, depending on whether
    dereferencing of symlinks is done for input files.  */
 int (*xstat) ();
diff -pur cpio-2.6/src/main.c cpio-2.6-fix/src/main.c
--- cpio-2.6/src/main.c	2004-11-23 00:42:18.000000000 +0000
+++ cpio-2.6-fix/src/main.c	2005-03-10 14:37:06.000000000 +0000
@@ -740,7 +740,6 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
   textdomain (PACKAGE);
 
   program_name = argv[0];
-  umask (0);
 
 #ifdef __TURBOC__
   _fmode = O_BINARY;		/* Put stdin and stdout in binary mode.  */
@@ -751,6 +750,7 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
 #endif
 
   process_args (argc, argv);
+  sys_umask = umask (0);
 
   initialize_buffers ();