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Description of problem:

Please consider building libtar for EPEL8.  If you are not interested in maintaining it in EPEL, please add me (FAS orion) as an admin on the package so that I can request the EPEL8 branch.  Thanks.

Seems to build fine:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=46003675

libtar cannot be built for EPEL-8 because it is in RHEL-8.  This is technically a request to include libtar-devel into CRB repo as I understand it.  Is there any customer case behind this request?

Ah, I missed that.  I'm afraid I'm not a customer.  I need it to build NetDRMS used to process JSOC data (http://jsoc.stanford.edu/), but I doubt any of the other JSOC sites are Red Hat customers either.  I see that there is already a request for CentOS to provide it and I've linked to that here as well.

Thank you for adding the reference to the corresponding CentOS bug.

The libtar package is no longer maintained upstream.  The last activity in the upstream git repository was in 2013.  We are currently migrating off libtar (see bug #1917890 for details), so it is unlikely that Red Hat would ever want to support libtar in RHEL-8 CRB.  I am closing this bug as WONTFIX.  Although the package may theoretically appear in EPEL-9, I would discourage from using it.