Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Olivier,
>
> Olivier Berger wrote:
>
>> Oh, btw, why such a Replaces, if the gitweb binary package is still
>> there ? Do you mean than gitweb could run without the gitweb package
>> installed and only git installed ?
>
> Yes, the "git instaweb" command uses gitweb.cgi and doesn't require
> the gitweb package to be installed.  The gitweb package configures a
> gitweb installation.  I'm tempted to move "git instaweb" to the
> gitweb package in wheezy+1.  That would be too invasive a change
> for wheezy.
>

Or maybe then create a git-instaweb package that depends on lighttpd and
gitweb, then, as I tried git instaweb and got informed that lighttpd was
required.

It's the first time I see it mentioned, actually, so I'm dubious it is
highly popular and people expect it installed out of the box from the
git package :-/

Should I file another report for this ?

Best regards,
-- 
Olivier BERGER 
http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8
Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)


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