On 12/11/2009 02:07 PM, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I have forked libtar as libtar-ng, because the upstream does not have > time to maintain it anymore. > > Here is the bz: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546169 > > Now the question is what is a private fork? > Am i wrong in forking it and packaging in fedora? > > Any replies/suggestions are appreciated, Thanks. You might want to get in touch with other distributions via http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions See, if they have distribution specific patches you can merge. Directly contact the maintainer of libtar in other mainstream distributions as well. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list