Re: libgit2

On 2025-05-31 19:40, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On Sat, 31 May 2025, Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 26/05/2025 19:41, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> On Sun, 25 May 2025, Jon Turney wrote:
>>> Should I add a big comment documenting the test failures, or a separate
>>> file?

>> No wrong answers.
>> I guess I'd go for a separate file, but I don't mind.

>>> PKG_NAMES="git2 libgit2_1_9 libgit2-devel"

>> Sorry for not spotting this earlier, but I think the conventional name here is
>> "libgit2_1.9" (i.e. the underscore just separates the upstream name (when it
>> happens to end in digits) from a trailing soversion number, it doesn't replace
>> all the dots in it.

> OK, wasn't sure, as soon as I saw that I was going to try to make a
> variable name with a dot in it, I went with the underscore.  But it seems
> I just stick with the underscore in the variable names.

>> If we're going to package the 'git2' tool, maybe it should have a description
>> which makes it clearer what it's use is (debugging libgit2, not working with
>> git repor?)

> I wouldn't be opposed to either not package it, or stick it in
> libgit2-devel.  I don't really know what it's used for tbh.

If git2 is a developer tool used with libgit2, then libgit2-devel would be a 
better place for it, with libgit2_.. as the binary package.

Note that the previous releases are 0.23.4-2 libgit2_23, 0.24.6-1 libgit2_24, 
0.25.1-1 libgit2_25, unfortunately, so 1.9.0-1 would have to be libgit2_109 for 
rpmvercmp to sort it higher, with appropriate changes elsewhere!

Also note that libgit2-glib1.0 provides a wrapper for a newer libgit2 release:

0.26.2-1 libgit2-glib1.0-devel
0.26.2-1 libgit2-glib1.0-doc
0.26.2-1 libgit2-glib1.0_0

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