Bug#948151: git: Please consider demoting git-man to Recommends
Source: git
Severity: important
User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Usertags: ppc64
Hello!
git is failing to build from source on multiple architectures.
While this is not release-critical for ports architectures, it
makes git uninstallable on any Debian Ports architecture due
to the hard dependency of the git package on the git-man package.
I explained the problem in detail in [1].
Since git-man contains the manpage only and therefore would not
necessarily be needed on any machine like a buildd where git
is used by scripts only, it would be great if git-man could
be moved from Depends to Recommends.
Since Recommends are enabled by default in apt, this would still
cause git-man to be installed on standard desktop installations
when a user invokves "apt install git" but at the same time it
would avoid installability problems as described in [1], especially
for Debian Ports buildds which, for example, cannot build rustc
at the moment because git is no installable [2].
Thanks,
Adrian
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html
> [2] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=rustc&suite=sid
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