> > Am Dienstag, den 17.02.2009, 09:40 -0800 schrieb Marc Singer:
> > > The upstream build of cgit requires a download of git to build libgit
> > > which this package links statically. Thus, this package practically
> > > depends on a change to git-core.
> > >
> > >
http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/
> >
> > the blocking bug 407722 [1] is marked »wontfix« and judging from the
> > answers on my question sent to the Git list (also cc-ed to [1]) it looks
> > like the only option is to link statically against libgit. :(
> >
> > Can some Debian Developers please comment on this? And if no other
> > solution is proposed could we get cgit included into the Debian package
> > repository and with luck cgit might be available in Debian squeeze.
>
> I'm not optimistic that the git developers will support development
> against the library. It's really a shame since it would benefit some
> kinds of projects that are performance bound