Re: [be] Setting up a remote repository returns an error

[Neil Mayhew]

On 2011-07-08 23:45, Teus Benschop wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 23:23 -0600, Neil Mayhew wrote:
> > On 2011-07-08 23:14, Teus Benschop wrote:
> > > The package fails to configure if git is not present, because the
> > > presence of git is felt to be crucial for bibledit operation.
> >
> > Although this is inappropriate if the application isn't going to run on
> > the same machine that it's being built on. Requiring git to build it is
> > unnecessary, and doesn't ensure it will be present on the machine when
> > the application is run. Build dependencies should be exactly that.
>
> Ok, what you say is true, and I must agree to it. So then, what is the
> solution? Methinks, to drop the dependency for building, and to make it
> a run-time check.

There are two ways to handle this, and I think we should do both. One is 
to make git some kind of dependency in the package, and the other is to 
implement a run-time check, as you suggest. I think the package 
dependency should be "recommends", so that most people get it by 
default, but someone really wants to they can still install the bibledit 
package without it.

Note that I'm talking about Debian/Ubuntu packaging here, but I assume 
RPM packaging has a similar facility, if someone eventually gets around 
to making an RPM for bibledit.

--Neil