The ITP is in the BTS as #128042 libtar is available from http://www-dev.cso.uiuc.edu/libtar/ its under the original 4 clause BSD license
My understanding is that it is DFSG free and conforms to Brandons proposed policy changes as outlined http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200112/msg00007.html There are no immediate packages that require libtar, i want to use it for a project im working, but tar is a pretty basic tool and i believe having a C library to manipulate tar archives will come in handy. Its the first libary ive packaged, i ended up redoing the build system to use libtool to generate the shared and static libraries. the shared library is made using -fPIC, but im not sure about the static library. Policy states that static libraries cannot be built using -fPIC, i dont understand what libtool does to make the static library, thats about the only thing i see is holding it up at this stage. If anyone want to have a look, its at http://people.debian.org/~bug1/libtar/ feedback most welcome. Glenn
