please backport git-* 1.5.6 to hardy

[Martin Röhricht]

Within the last weeks the Linux kernel's version control system git advanced to release 1.5.6. A numereous number of bugs was fixed between hardy's release 1.5.4 and the current release 1.5.6, especially regarding HTTP support. Debian's backport from backports.org is not built with curl support as far as I remember. It would be a great gift to see the last maintenance release of git before it advances to release 1.6.

[Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall)]

I'm confirming this one, it builds and is installable. Version tested: 1.5.6.3

(source package is git-core, git is a different package)

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Git has a stack of rdepends and these need to be tested to determine if they need to be updated too.

[pranith (bobby-prani)]

How do we proceed on this?

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Somebody who cares to have this backport done needs to test the rdepends, see if they work/need updating too, and document the results.

[Pau Garcia Quiles (pgquiles)]

The latest version of git is always available from my PPA for Hardy and Jaunty:
http://launchpad.net/~pgquiles/+archive/ppa

Currently, latest = 1.6.4.2

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

As previously mentioned, testing of the rdepends is what is blocking this.