Bug#128042: ITP: libtar -- C library for manipulating tar archives

[Glenn McGrath <bug1@optushome.com.au>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

I intend to package libtar, which is available from
http://www-dev.cso.uiuc.edu/libtar/ its a c library for
creating/extracting tar archives.

I want use the package in a project i am working on, the only projects i
know of that use libtar are epkg and i think some slackware packaging
tool (they have no debian packages). tar is a pretty fundamental tool so
i think it will be a useful library to have.

Current progress of my packaging effort is at
people.debian.org/~bug1/libtar problems i need to fix before uploading
are, - shared library version number
 - fix up example application
 - add build dependencies

In order to build the shared library i changed the build system to use
libtool and autoconf v2.5, my config files introduce some problems that
upstream doesnt have, so i need to improve them before trying to sync
them with upstream.


Glenn