status of libgit.a

From: Paul Menzel <pm.debian@googlemail.com>
Date: Mar 7, 2010, 10:27 UTC
Message-ID: <1267957655.3759.29.camel@mattotaupa>
In-Reply-To: <20090219092446.23272.qmail@3b5a9fa637f270.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>

Dear Git folks,

Am Donnerstag, den 19.02.2009, 09:24 +0000 schrieb Gerrit Pape:

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:10:02AM -0800, Marc Oscar Singer wrote:
> > Gerrit Pape wrote:

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> > >It depends on upstream.  Back then, Junio asked to not provide such a
> > >library package in Debian, and I respect that.  There've been some plans
> > >and effort to stabilize the lib in the past, but I'm not sure about the
> > >status.
> > >  
> > Would it be a compromise to provide libgit.a as a static library for 
> > until it stabilizes?
> 
> That's not the compromise, that's the option, I don't know any plans
> about a shared library.  The git-core-dev package that was available for
> short included such a static library.
> 
> You really need to talk to upstream if you want this libgit.a.

could you please give an update on the status of libgit.a. For example cgit still could not be packaged yet for Debian [1] because of this bug [2].

cgit is used by a lot of projects out there, so I am wondering if the current libgit.a can be released in its current state.

By the way, is there a web site/page for libgit.a?

Thanks and sorry if I got something wrong,

Paul

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515793 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=407722