This has already been reported and closed by Debian: "Hi, fetching through http is just one part of git core, and not necessarily used by all users. That's why the git-core package Recommends: curl, most of it works just fine without curl being installed."
That seems correct behavior. Hopefully this won't be an issue for too long since we are enabling --install-recommends as the default in edgy. I'm gonna add a link to the Debian bug and close this here. Thanks for reporting it! ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #358915 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=358915 ** Also affects: git-core (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=358915 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: git-core (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- git-core requires curl but doesn't download it https://launchpad.net/bugs/52711 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
