Source: git Severity: important User: debian-powe...@lists.debian.org Usertags: ppc64
Hello! git is failing to build from source on multiple architectures. While this is not release-critical for ports architectures, it makes git uninstallable on any Debian Ports architecture due to the hard dependency of the git package on the git-man package. I explained the problem in detail in [1]. Since git-man contains the manpage only and therefore would not necessarily be needed on any machine like a buildd where git is used by scripts only, it would be great if git-man could be moved from Depends to Recommends. Since Recommends are enabled by default in apt, this would still cause git-man to be installed on standard desktop installations when a user invokves "apt install git" but at the same time it would avoid installability problems as described in [1], especially for Debian Ports buildds which, for example, cannot build rustc at the moment because git is no installable [2]. Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html > [2] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=rustc&suite=sid -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
