From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:33:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Why does git-core 0.99.7 require python 2.4?
Message-ID: <432F2E96.1040307@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v7jdclpme.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>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.)
> 
> 
> 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