Re: What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:00:06 +0530, Huzaifa wrote: > Hi, > So taking into consideration all the feed back , here are the changes done: > > - - bump soname in the code from 1.2.11 to 1.2.12 Please, with further comments on this package let's limit ourselves to one place only. _Eiter_ the review

Re: What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-14 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, So taking into consideration all the feed back , here are the changes done: - - bump soname in the code from 1.2.11 to 1.2.12 - - In the srpm, libtar-ng now obsoletes libtar, so that the conflicts are resolved. - - Tar ball is bz2 and not gzip to

Re: What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote: > 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 fe

Re: What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:43:16 +0530, Rahul wrote: > On 12/11/2009 04:38 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:14:40 +0530, Rahul wrote: > > > >> On 12/11/2009 03:56 PM, Florian Festi wrote: > >>> Without knowing the history: > >>> > >>> Best solution would be to ask former upstrea

Re: What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/11/2009 04:38 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:14:40 +0530, Rahul wrote: > >> On 12/11/2009 03:56 PM, Florian Festi wrote: >>> Without knowing the history: >>> >>> Best solution would be to ask former upstream for permission to continue >>> the project under its original

Re: What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-11 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 16:14 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 12/11/2009 03:56 PM, Florian Festi wrote: > > Without knowing the history: > > > > Best solution would be to ask former upstream for permission to continue > > the project under its original name > > That was already denied > > https

Re: What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:14:40 +0530, Rahul wrote: > On 12/11/2009 03:56 PM, Florian Festi wrote: > > Without knowing the history: > > > > Best solution would be to ask former upstream for permission to continue > > the project under its original name > > That was already denied > > https://list

Re: What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/11/2009 03:56 PM, Florian Festi wrote: > Without knowing the history: > > Best solution would be to ask former upstream for permission to continue > the project under its original name That was already denied https://lists.feep.net:8080/pipermail/libtar/2009-May/000259.html Rahul -- fe

Re: What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-11 Thread Florian Festi
Without knowing the history: Best solution would be to ask former upstream for permission to continue the project under its original name and may be even to forward the old mailing list and web page the to new ones. But I am not sure if you are living the the best of all possible worlds... F

Re: What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
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

Re: What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:07:29 +0530, Huzaifa wrote: > 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 forki

What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-11 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
-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 packag