Forking means publishing your own modified version and is a common practice in Free Software. Forking a package repository is less common but useful nevertheless. Here is how it can be done for i386 using packaging-farm and the XiVO Debian GNU/Linux repository for lenny. The stable (Gallifrey) repository is preferred although it could be done with the more recent (Skaro) repository.
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