gitg-3.17.1 fails to build in xenial

[Greemin]

When I try to compile gitg-3.17.1 from "apt-get source" for Ubuntu 16.04 xenial.
./configure throws (after installing all dependencies):

"Requested 'libgit2-glib-1.0 < 0.24.0' but version of libgit2-glib is 0.24.0"

I tried to find a solution by asking here but it seems to be a deeper problem:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gitg/+question/644294

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting.

I can confirm this issue. I got the same error message when attempting to build gitg via `debuild -us -uc` on Ubuntu 16.04. Like one of the replies in the original question mentions, the root cause seems to be that libgit2-glib was updated to a newer version, which is incompatible with the build requirements for this package.

All packages should be buildable, but I'm not sure if there's an easy fix for this short of backporting a newer version of gitg or path (presumably) large part of it to support a newer version of the underlying library :/

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

You just need to patch configure.ac with something like this:

-LIBGIT2_GLIB_REQUIRED_MAX_VERSION=0.24.0
+LIBGIT2_GLIB_REQUIRED_MAX_VERSION=0.25.0