Re: Missing Package in git Installation Instructions (git-scm.com)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 5, 2016, 06:10 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1607050807320.8378@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <1467670411.13990.4.camel@gmail.com>

Hi Chris,

On Tue, 5 Jul 2016, Christoph Michelbach wrote:

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> Hi, I noticed that the instructions on https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/G
> etting-Started-Installing-Git don't work without dh-autoreconf
> installed on an apt-get system which isn't listed on that site. Can you
> fix that or tell me whom to tell about this? The website doesn't offer
> contact information. Just tried this on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04
> installation.

When you follow that link, do you see this text on the left side?

	The source of this book is hosted on GitHub.
	Patches, suggestions and comments are welcome.

It links to https://github.com/progit/progit2 and I am sure your bug report would make an excellent contribution to the bug tracker ("Issues") in that repository.

It would probably be even better if you cloned said repository, found the respective file via `git grep apt-get`, fixed it, and opened a Pull Request.

Ciao, Johannes