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bug#41339: Installing 'git:send-email' masks underlying git installation
From: |
zimoun |
Subject: |
bug#41339: Installing 'git:send-email' masks underlying git installations and does not imply installing git |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 19:00:00 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Dear,
On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 16:59, Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com>
wrote:
> When installing "git:send-email", the dependency "git" is not
> installed.
It is an eternal question. :-) Should installing the package “python-foo”
or “r-bar” also install the package “python” or the package “r-minimal”?
Well, the answer seems being: it is up to the user. Because of
diversity. Imagine that I want to install Git version x.y and the Git
package coming with “git:send-email” is at version p.q. Just one
example.
Therefore, I do not think it can be considered as a bug.
> Installing this also masks a local installation of git
> masked when running in a foreign distro. The particular failure
> observed is that repos transferred over https no longer worked with
> the error `fatal: unable to find remote helper for 'https'`.
I am not sure to understand. What do you mean? Could you provide an
example to reproduce?
All the best,
simon
- bug#41339: Installing 'git:send-email' masks underlying git installations and does not imply installing git,
zimoun <=