gettext-devel and Git Dependency Removal?

Matthew Sheets via Cygwin-apps <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Jan 2026 13:02:07 +0000

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Back in July, there had been discussion as to whether Git needed to be a dependency of gettext-devel.
 • https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2025-July/thread.html

From discussion, it appeared that Git could be removed as a dependency.
 • https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2025-July/044462.html

The latest listed version of gettext-devel is 0.22.5-1 from 2024-10-06.
 • https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/gettext-devel.html

Is anything additional needed before a new gettext-devel package that removes the Git dependency can be released?


Thank you,
Matthew