tar using --transform flag is replacing symlinks when extracting archive

When I unpack a tar.gz archive using this command on Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS:

tar -xvf foo-bar-linux-x64.tar.xz --transform "s:^[^/]*:foo-bar:"

everything is unpacked into a foo-bar folder instead a foo-bar-linux-x64 folder (which is the one by default as encapsulated in the archive), but I notice that all symbolic links existing in the archive file structure now point to -> foo-bar instead of their respective libraries, e.g. in ./foo-bar/lib/: libwhatever.so -> foo-bar instead of libwhatever.so -> libwhatever.so.1.2 Why and how to fix this? #### Edit: I also tried:

tar -xvf foo-bar-linux-x64.tar.xz --transform "--transform "s:^[^*/]*/:foo-bar/:"

it works, but it curiously creates two folders: foo-bar-linux-x64 which is empty and foo-bar/ which is apparently OK.

$ tar --version
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