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and subject line Re: Bug#607571: gitpkg should depend on devscripts because of
git-debimport
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Package: gitpkg
Version: 0.16
Hi!
I finally found time to give git-debimport a try, but it failed because
I didn't have debsnap installed:
zayt...@kate:~/mc-pkg$ git-debimport --fetch mc
debsnap not found, unable to fetch files.
I found out, that debsnap lives in devscipts package and therefore I
suggest to depend gitpkg on devscripts, so that it would be installed
automatically.
P.S. Running latest Debian testing.
Thanks!
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Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev
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On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:25:32PM +0100, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> Hi again!
>
> I've just got an acknowledgment e-mail, probably the report got stuck
> somewhere in the pipes...
>
> To justify my point following up our IRC conversation, I think that
> nobody will use gitpkg / git-debimport without devscripts installed
> anyway.
I think that's probably true too, but devscripts by default brings in a
rather large list of other packages too, so I don't see any good reason
to force that on people if they know they don't want it just to run
something from gitpkg that doesn't need it (which is almost everything
except one rarely used option).
> Yes, I know it already suggests it, but I didn't know that it is needed
> for git-debimport in advance,
It's not needed for git-debimport. It's only needed for --fetch.
> so I didn't pay attention to it. And most users probably won't to it either.
Most users probably won't even know about --fetch unless they read the
man page, where it's clearly documented that you need devscripts to use
that option.
> So, please...
I'd consider making the warning a bit more explicit, but I think it's
probably ok as is and a hard dep is overkill. It fails gracefully if
the dep isn't installed, and I think you only got caught because I
told you about fetch rather than you reading the documentation.
Cheers,
Ron
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