Re: Why does git-core 0.99.7 require python 2.4?

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2005, 21:33 UTC
Message-ID: <432F2E96.1040307@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v7jdclpme.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
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>>My suggestion would be to fork off the recursive merge into a separate 
>>binary package which can have the python >= 2.4 requirement (unless 
>>Fredrik just fixes it.)
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> It sounds like the right thing to do, not that I know much about
> how RPM world deals with situations like this (aside from what I
> learnt from the list).  If we go this route probably we should
> the same for gitk and git-send-email as well?

Yes, that probably would make sense, at least for gitk.

I'll try to work on the spec file. It's a bit messier than I'd like, because a whole bunch of wildcard patterns don't work anymore.

	-hpa