Re: [Bug 52711] Re: git-core requires curl but doesn't download it

2008-09-16 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:44:36AM -, Alexander Sack wrote: > git-core depends on libcurl-gnutls and doesnt recommend curl at all. > Thus, I assume that this bug is now fixed. If you dont think so, please > reopen. > > ** Changed in: git-core (Ubuntu) >Status: Confirmed => Invalid The

Re: [Bug 52711] Re: git-core requires curl but doesn't download it

2008-04-15 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 11:42 +, Emil Sit wrote: > I think the current error message could be a bit friendlier though > arguably anyone using git clone can probably figure out that if you're > missing curl, you need to install it. That's not a reason to keep it broken. I have never liked having

Re: [Bug 52711] Re: git-core requires curl but doesn't download it

2008-04-15 Thread Emil Sit
On Tue, 15 April 2008 at 04:27 (-), Michael B. Trausch wrote: > That is a very common use-case. Hence the promotion to Depends really > is necessary How do you feel about my proposal to split this functionality off into a separate package? Run-time detection of curl in git upstream would al

Re: [Bug 52711] Re: git-core requires curl but doesn't download it

2008-04-14 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 19:54 +, Daniel Hahler wrote: > Fetching through http is just one part of git core, and not > necessarily > used by all users. That's why the git-core package Recommends: curl, > most of it works just fine without curl being installed. > > That's what Recommends is meant