Looking for any libtar patches floating around

[Huzaifa Sidhpurwala]

Hi Robert,
Thanks for replying,
I will be changing the library name to libtar-ng.so, since the original
author does not want me to use the libtar name.
Looks like the example fix is already applied.

Regards,
Huzaifa.

2009/12/16 Robert Buchholz <rbu at gentoo.org>

> Hi Huzaifa,
>
> On Monday 14 December 2009, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote:
> > I am trying to get all (long pending) patches into this fork.
> > I have already integrated fedora and debian patches.
> > In case you maintain libtar in other distros and use any patches i am
> > not aware of, i would be gratefull, if you would let me know about
> > it.
>
> Will libtar-ng be installing a libtar.so or are you changing the
> library's name as well? As far as Gentoo is concerned, you can find two
> here:
> http://sources.gentoo.org/dev-libs/libtar/files/
>
> The libtar-1.2.11-memleak.patch is not applied any more as it caused
> compilation bugs in reverse dependencies, see
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/228445
>
> Hope this helps,
> Robert
>
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