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FS#34755 - [cgit] possibly unused dependency: git

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Peter Wu (Lekensteyn) - Friday, 12 April 2013, 21:03 GMT
Last edited by Sergej Pupykin (sergej) - Monday, 15 April 2013, 11:12 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

cgit statically links against git. The PKGBUILD downloads a specific git version and builds libraries from that tarball.

git is also included in the build dependencies, but that seems unnecessary as it links against the downloaded git source.
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Closed by  Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Monday, 15 April 2013, 11:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Peter Wu (Lekensteyn) - Friday, 12 April 2013, 21:03 GMT
Forgot to mention:

Version: 0.9.1-1
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Sunday, 14 April 2013, 17:15 GMT
Can't we build against the repo git version?
Comment by Peter Wu (Lekensteyn) - Sunday, 14 April 2013, 19:52 GMT
Not always, gits API is not stable. Upstream recommends one specific git version (the one that is currently specified in the Makefile and PKGBUILD), others are unsupported.
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Monday, 15 April 2013, 10:37 GMT
Thanks for the info, seems good to me :)

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