Bug#515793: ITP: CGIT -- C-code Web Front-end to GIT

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Oxan van Leeuwen wrote:
> On 29-07-12 18:19, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> I would be very happy to see cgit in Debian.  Perhaps we could
>> approach this by building cgit from the git source package, either
>> using dpkg source format 3.0's multiple-tarball feature or by
>> including cgit in the Debian patch.
>>
>> Would you be interested in this approach?  Do you have initial cgit
>> packaging to play with?
>
> I'd like to propse another solution for this: let git build a git-source
> binary package, and build cgit using that package.

I would prefer not to go this way.  It would mean that when I make git
uploads, they'd always have a chance of breaking the cgit build
without notice.  And it would also mean that whenever I fix an
important bug I have to track down whether cgit needs to be rebuilt.

An alternative that is not as bad is to export libgit.a (or .so, for
that matter) and headers for cgit use.

I'd far prefer to just have a copy of cgit built as part of the git
build.  It doesn't have to involve multiple upstream tarballs: e.g.,
cgit can be included in the debian/ directory in the debian.tar.xz in
the short term, and in the long term I think it would be a candidate
for inclusion in contrib/ upstream.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan