Make sure that the binary debian package depends on shlibs it uses. This point was raised by Alexey Nezhdanov.
The "Depends:" line in debian/control lacked ${shlibs:Depends}, which caused the resulting binary package not to depend on libcurl3 nor even libc6 ;-). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Ryan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.6.1 Package: git-core Architecture: any -Depends: ${misc:Depends}, shellutils, diff, rsync, rcs +Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, shellutils, diff, rsync, rcs Description: The git content addressable filesystem GIT comes in two layers. The bottom layer is merely an extremely fast and flexible filesystem-based database designed to store directory trees - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html