git-clone fails

[Adam Klobukowski]

Binary package hint: git-core

invoking git with:

$ git clone http://git.0pointer.de/repos/libflashsupport.git/

fails with following error message:

/usr/bin/git-clone: 356: curl: not found

Installing curl package fixes the problem. git-core recommends curl, but it should require it.

[Jonathan Davies (jpds)]

Confirming and:

jon@rubycon:$ sudo apt-get install git-core ~
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libdigest-sha1-perl liberror-perl
Suggested packages:
  git-arch git-cvs git-svn git-email git-daemon-run git-gui gitk gitweb cogito
Recommended packages:
  git-doc curl
The following NEW packages will be installed
  git-core libdigest-sha1-perl liberror-perl
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3671kB of archives.
After unpacking 7827kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Get: 1 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main liberror-perl 0.15-8 [15.5kB]
Get: 2 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main libdigest-sha1-perl 2.11-2 [24.7kB]
Get: 3 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main git-core 1:1.5.2.5-2build1 [3631kB]
Fetched 3671kB in 49s (74.8kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package liberror-perl.
(Reading database ... 96282 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking liberror-perl (from .../liberror-perl_0.15-8_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libdigest-sha1-perl.
Unpacking libdigest-sha1-perl (from .../libdigest-sha1-perl_2.11-2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package git-core.
Unpacking git-core (from .../git-core_1%3a1.5.2.5-2build1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up liberror-perl (0.15-8) ...
Setting up libdigest-sha1-perl (2.11-2) ...
Setting up git-core (1:1.5.2.5-2build1) ...
jon@rubycon:$ mkdir git-tmp ~
jon@rubycon:$ cd git-tmp ~
jon@rubycon:$ git clone http://source.djpig.de/git/packages.git ~/git-tmp
zsh: correct 'git' to '_git' [nyae]? n
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/jon/git-tmp/packages/.git/
/usr/bin/git-clone: 310: curl: not found
Cannot get remote repository information.
Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?
jon@rubycon:$ sudo apt-get install curl ~/git-tmp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libcurl3
The following NEW packages will be installed
  curl libcurl3
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 357kB of archives.
After unpacking 680kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Get: 1 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main libcurl3 7.16.4-2ubuntu1 [182kB]
Get: 2 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main curl 7.16.4-2ubuntu1 [175kB]
Fetched 357kB in 3s (98.1kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package libcurl3.
(Reading database ... 96622 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libcurl3 (from .../libcurl3_7.16.4-2ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package curl.
Unpacking curl (from .../curl_7.16.4-2ubuntu1_i38...

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

git-core in Hardy recommends the different tools used for transportation:
Recommends: patch, less, rsync, curl, ssh-client

This appears to be the right solution (in contrast to "Depends"), because "curl" is only required for cloning a http repository.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

I'm marking this as duplicate of bug 52711 instead.