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Re: Bug#807968: RFP: haskell-gitlib-libgit2 -- Libgit2 backend for gitlib (haskell)



Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 17.12.2015, 20:59 +0000 schrieb Dmitry Bogatov:
> On 2015-12-14, Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > * Package name    : haskell-gitlib-libgit2
> > * URL             : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gitlib-libgi
> > t2
> > * License         : BSD
> >   Programming Lang: haskell
> >   Description     : Libgit2 backend for gitlib (haskell)
> > 
> > * https://github.com/jwiegley/gitlib/issues/43
> >   The version of libgit2 bundled with hlibgit2 is currently 0.18,
> >   which is older than the versions in Debian. This may make it hard
> >   to build the package against the system libgit2. (Haven't tried.)
> 
> I investigated a bit. It is really complicated. Version of libgit2 in
> sid is 23, which is source-incompatible with 18.
> 
> Enumerations fields gets added/removed, whole structs gets removed,
> callback arguments are changed and so on. It is only things I
> encountered in attempt to compile, to say nothing about properly
> mirroring libgit2-23 API. It needs not patch, but support from
> maintainer, if you ask me.
> 
> Sorry, but I am not up to this migration.

if it is too hard, is it reasonable to simply use the embedded library
code?

Greetings,
Joachim

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