From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Include necessary git tools in the Emacs distribution? Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:54:17 +0100 Message-ID: <87egszt9l2.fsf@engster.org> References: <21606.10799.112099.788101@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <1753218.Ot8JCqssfN@descartes> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416416094 31784 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2014 16:54:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:54:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ulrich Mueller , Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Sonderfeld Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 19 17:54:48 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr8Wk-0008F1-LO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:54:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59531 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr8Wk-0006pY-Bp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:54:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49060) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr8WS-0006pT-6b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:54:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr8WM-0003Ta-5Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:54:28 -0500 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([5.45.97.173]:38755) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr8WL-0003SZ-Sj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:54:22 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=nD0MGOWnZ6WfPbxcJOQQkP9XfyQZlnshDo3UrKfCRAs=; b=hphjNOVBl93Arcl3tLHRIZjvmFFiJsG7BZHZiOE2EPAzOe/jGDjEXt8zoOgnEGHO7gaMMWkX7T3KUPtAZu7lE+rdnRJEyitWEejQBpokHStl4LI4UIg48pbJCqBFFRO7; Original-Received: from ip2504b377.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de ([37.4.179.119] helo=spaten) by randomsample.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr8WJ-0006JL-Vg; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:54:20 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1753218.Ot8JCqssfN@descartes> (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22R=FCdiger?= Sonderfeld"'s message of "Tue, 18 Nov 2014 03:07:51 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.45.97.173 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177789 Archived-At: R=FCdiger Sonderfeld writes: > On Friday 14 November 2014 17:13:35 Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> Gentoo has dev-vcs/git-merge-changelog as a package. However, it would >> certainly help if it was packaged upstream, without the need to first >> extract it from gnulib. > > I've created a bug (wishlist) report for it to be added to Debian's git-e= xtras=20 > package: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D734527 > > But so far (7 Jan 2014) no reply. I guess the best solution to deal with= it,=20 > would be to move it from Gnulib to git/contrib. But that would require t= he=20 > Gnulib and git maintainers to work together and agree on the issue. Not sure if you know this, but git-merge-changelog is a package in testing and will hence be part of Debian 8: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/git-merge-changelog You can install it from there into current stable with no problems. -David