gettext/-devel convert-archive usage and impact of packaging --without-git

[Brian Inglis]

On 2025-07-23 14:41, Bruno Haible wrote:
> [Removing cygwin-apps from CC, since it rejects my mails.]
> 
> Brian Inglis wrote:
>> $ tar -tvf …/gettext-devel-0.22.5-1.tar.xz usr/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.xz
>> … 413232 2024-02-26 09:46 usr/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.xz
>>
>> IIUC, git is not required, we can drop git and bz2 as build-deps, package with
>> the --without-{bz2,cvs,git} config flags, and not really affect existing or
>> future packages.
>>
>> Is that our situation?
> 
> Yes. As you showed, you already distribute the archive in .dir.tar.xz format;
> therefore you can drop dependencies on git, cvs, bzip2. You only need to ensure
> a dependency on 'xz'.
> 
> Bruno

Thanks Bruno,

That will make our devs happy!

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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