Hi, On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Paul Menzel wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 19.02.2009, 09:24 +0000 schrieb Gerrit Pape: > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:10:02AM -0800, Marc Oscar Singer wrote: > > > Gerrit Pape wrote: > > […] > > > > >It depends on upstream. Back then, Junio asked to not provide such > > > >a library package in Debian, and I respect that. There've been > > > >some plans and effort to stabilize the lib in the past, but I'm not > > > >sure about the status. > > > > > > > Would it be a compromise to provide libgit.a as a static library for > > > until it stabilizes? > > > > That's not the compromise, that's the option, I don't know any plans > > about a shared library. The git-core-dev package that was available > > for short included such a static library. > > > > You really need to talk to upstream if you want this libgit.a. > > could you please give an update on the status of libgit.a. There had been some people who worked towards a re-entrant libgit.a (read: non-die()ing in library functions). But there were too many others, so that effort stopped. The most likely route for people needing libgit.a would be libgit2: http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SoC2010Ideas#Complete_libgit2 > For example cgit still could not be packaged yet for Debian [1] because > of this bug [2]. cgit should not depend on libgit.a, as it is linked statically anyway. Ciao, Dscho