Looks like this is no longer a dependency in 16.04 at least: >$ dpkg -s libgit2-dev Package: libgit2-dev ... Depends: libgit2-24 (= 0.24.1-2), libz-dev, libcurl4-gnutls-dev, libssh2-1-dev, libhttp-parser-dev
Looks like this is no longer a dependency in 16.04 at least: gnutls- dev, libssh2-1-dev, libhttp-parser-dev
>$ dpkg -s libgit2-dev
Package: libgit2-dev
...
Depends: libgit2-24 (= 0.24.1-2), libz-dev, libcurl4-