From: Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: 41339@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41339: Installing 'git:send-email' masks underlying git installations and does not imply installing git
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 17:05:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFkJGRdVMRoEKbXtL+v2aRN0-+V5iCvGacKJYrBmf4hw=N4kzg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <867dra1ba7.fsf@gmail.com>
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Gosh, it has been months. I'm not sure, and I'm pretty mentally spent.
On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 2:00 PM zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear,
>
> On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 16:59, Josh Marshall <
> joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > When installing "git:send-email", the dependency "git" is not
> > installed.
>
> It is an eternal question. :-) Should installing the package “python-foo”
> or “r-bar” also install the package “python” or the package “r-minimal”?
>
> Well, the answer seems being: it is up to the user. Because of
> diversity. Imagine that I want to install Git version x.y and the Git
> package coming with “git:send-email” is at version p.q. Just one
> example.
>
> Therefore, I do not think it can be considered as a bug.
>
> > Installing this also masks a local installation of git
> > masked when running in a foreign distro. The particular failure
> > observed is that repos transferred over https no longer worked with
> > the error `fatal: unable to find remote helper for 'https'`.
>
> I am not sure to understand. What do you mean? Could you provide an
> example to reproduce?
>
>
> All the best,
> simon
>
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-16 20:59 bug#41339: Installing 'git:send-email' masks underlying git installations and does not imply installing git Josh Marshall
2020-05-16 22:39 ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-10-28 22:58 ` zimoun
2020-10-28 18:00 ` zimoun
2020-10-28 21:05 ` Josh Marshall [this message]
2020-10-28 22:45 ` zimoun
2022-07-13 3:08 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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