FS#43013 - [libgit2] requesting static lib package
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Arch Linux
Opened by Shawn Rutledge (ecloud) - Friday, 05 December 2014, 06:32 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 11 December 2014, 10:49 GMT
Opened by Shawn Rutledge (ecloud) - Friday, 05 December 2014, 06:32 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 11 December 2014, 10:49 GMT
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Details
Upstream keeps making API changes which tend to break other
packages. In particular I keep trying to use
http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/git
(for which there is no Arch package yet). Often it doesn't
build. When I get lucky and it does build, it would be nice
to have it statically linked so that it doesn't break again
later.
I wonder how the pygit2 egg manages to stay in sync. |
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Closed by Jan de Groot (JGC)
Thursday, 11 December 2014, 10:49 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Thursday, 11 December 2014, 10:49 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) -
Friday, 05 December 2014, 09:28 GMT
I don't see this as a valid reason for a distribution package. If
your software can't keep up with development you should include a
specific version in-tree so your software always compiles. This is
what Mozilla does with firefox and cairo for example. Even if we
include the static library, the next bugreport that gets opened is
"can't compile".