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

[Huzaifa Sidhpurwala]

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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.
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Regards,
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, RHCE, CCNA (IRC: huzaifas)
IT Desktop R&D Lead.
Global Help Desk, Pune (India)
Phone: +91 20 4005 7322 (UTC +5.5)

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