Hi,
Nicholas Brown wrote:
> /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Source/Package/V3/Git.pm regularly calls out to git
> using
> "system('git',...." yet libdpkg-perl does not Require or even Recommend that
> Git is installed.
>
> This makes using dpkg-source with the 3.0 (git) format fail, for example in a
> automatically build chroot created to build a source package in this format,
> as
> git is missing to extract the package.
> It can be worked around by explcitly installing git in the build chroot.
>
> I'd guess the that libdpkg-perl should either Require or Recommend that git is
> installed.
>
> [ 5s] now finalizing build dir...
> [ 7s] dpkg-source: warning: extracting unsigned source package
> (/usr/src/packages/test-package_1.0.0.dsc)
> [ 7s] dpkg-source: info: extracting test-package in /usr/src/packages/BUILD
> [ 7s] dpkg-source: info: cloning test-package_1.0.0.git
> [ 7s] Can't exec "git": No such file or directory at
> /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Source/Package/V3/Git.pm line 246.
> [ 7s] dpkg-source: error: git bundle failed with unknown exit code -1
Interesting.
Since lidpkg-perl is a library that provides lots of useful
functionality without git, I think I would prefer that this be a
Suggests, not a Recommends. I see that libdpkg-perl already has
"Recommends: xz-utils", so I may be fighting against the tide. (Maybe
the Debian archive not accepting "3.0 (git)" packages changes the
calculus somehow. Not sure.)
What tool do you use to generate a build chroot? If nothing else, we
should look into improving that to install the packages needed to
extract a source package.
I also wonder if it's possible to improve the error message when git
is not installed.
Thoughts?
Jonathan
