Based on the positive feedback from Ximin Luo I have uploaded my FTBFS fix for
fritzing as a NMU. A debdiff of what was finally uploaded is attatched (which
other than the changelog is the same as the raspbian debdiff I linked earlier).
diff -Nru fritzing-0.9.3b+dfsg/debian/changelog
fritzing-0.9.3b+dfsg/debian/changelog
--- fritzing-0.9.3b+dfsg/debian/changelog 2017-01-23 16:27:29.000000000
+0000
+++ fritzing-0.9.3b+dfsg/debian/changelog 2017-10-19 14:43:00.000000000
+0000
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+fritzing (0.9.3b+dfsg-4.1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Set new "proxy" parameter in git_remote_connect to NULL (Closes: 872847)
+ * Bump libgit2 build-dependency to >= 0.25 due to above patch.
+
+ -- Peter Michael Green <plugw...@debian.org> Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:43:00 +0000
+
fritzing (0.9.3b+dfsg-4) unstable; urgency=medium
* created a shell script to launch fritzing with a special pwd.
diff -Nru fritzing-0.9.3b+dfsg/debian/control
fritzing-0.9.3b+dfsg/debian/control
--- fritzing-0.9.3b+dfsg/debian/control 2016-11-01 12:05:59.000000000 +0000
+++ fritzing-0.9.3b+dfsg/debian/control 2017-09-21 02:29:48.000000000 +0000
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
libqt5svg5-dev,
zlib1g-dev,
libboost-dev,
- libgit2-dev (>= 0.24.1),
+ libgit2-dev (>= 0.25),
sqlite3
Standards-Version: 3.9.8
Vcs-Browser: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ehbello/fritzing/debian/changes
diff -Nru fritzing-0.9.3b+dfsg/debian/patches/add-proxy-parameter.diff
fritzing-0.9.3b+dfsg/debian/patches/add-proxy-parameter.diff
--- fritzing-0.9.3b+dfsg/debian/patches/add-proxy-parameter.diff
1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ fritzing-0.9.3b+dfsg/debian/patches/add-proxy-parameter.diff
2017-09-21 02:28:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Description: Set new "proxy" parameter in git_remote_connect to NULL
+Author: Peter Michael Green <plugw...@raspbian.org>
+
+--- fritzing-0.9.3b+dfsg.orig/src/version/partschecker.cpp
++++ fritzing-0.9.3b+dfsg/src/version/partschecker.cpp
+@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ bool PartsChecker::newPartsAvailable(con
+ */
+ git_strarray customheaders;
+ customheaders.count = 0;
+- error = git_remote_connect(remote, GIT_DIRECTION_FETCH, &callbacks,
&customheaders);
++ error = git_remote_connect(remote, GIT_DIRECTION_FETCH, &callbacks,NULL,
&customheaders);
+ if (error) {
+ partsCheckerResult.partsCheckerError = PARTS_CHECKER_ERROR_REMOTE;
+ partsCheckerResult.errorMessage = QObject::tr("Unable to access
network site for '%1'. %2").arg(repoPath).arg(sBoilerPlate1);
diff -Nru fritzing-0.9.3b+dfsg/debian/patches/series
fritzing-0.9.3b+dfsg/debian/patches/series
--- fritzing-0.9.3b+dfsg/debian/patches/series 2017-01-23 16:27:29.000000000
+0000
+++ fritzing-0.9.3b+dfsg/debian/patches/series 2017-09-21 02:27:39.000000000
+0000
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@
git-remote-connect.patch
no-isystem-for-gcc6.patch
fritzing.desktop.patch
+add-proxy-parameter.diff
