On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 7:51 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > 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].
attached a simple patch moves git-man to "Suggests:" section
git-man-depends.patch
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