Re: status of libgit.a

From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Mar 7, 2010, 12:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20100307121809.GS27414@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <1267957655.3759.29.camel@mattotaupa>

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:27:35AM +0100, Paul Menzel <pm.debian@googlemail.com> wrote:

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> > 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.

libgit.a is not a public library, so it will never have a stable API/ABI. There is a libgit2 project which tries to do this, but it's far from complete:

http://repo.or.cz/w/libgit2.git

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

No, there isn't.

I think the only sane solution is what Fedora does as well:

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/cgit/

When cgit-1.2.3 is released, have a look at its Makefile, check what Git version does it want and add the relevant Git source to the cgit source package.

[ I remember Debian did not support having multiple upstream sources / one source package, I hope this is no longer the situation. ;-) ]