On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Paul Menzel <pm.deb...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> Dear Marc, > > > Am Dienstag, den 17.02.2009, 09:40 -0800 schrieb Marc Singer: > > The upstream build of cgit requires a download of git to build libgit > > which this package links statically. Thus, this package practically > > depends on a change to git-core. > > > > http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/ > > the blocking bug 407722 [1] is marked »wontfix« and judging from the > answers on my question sent to the Git list (also cc-ed to [1]) it looks > like the only option is to link statically against libgit. :( > > Can some Debian Developers please comment on this? And if no other > solution is proposed could we get cgit included into the Debian package > repository and with luck cgit might be available in Debian squeeze. > > I'm not optimistic that the git developers will support development against the library. It's really a shame since it would benefit some kinds of projects that are performance bound
