Re: pkg/57218: git-contrib tries to download more files during "make install"

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/57218; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/57218: git-contrib tries to download more files during "make
 install"
Date: Tue, 9 May 2023 21:48:54 +0000

 On Sat, Feb 04, 2023 at 12:10:01PM +0000, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
  > > Why is it not pulled in automatically? Was a revump missed for
  > > dependencies?
  >  
  >  I don't know, I thought in my testing that just rebuilding libxml2 was 
  >  enough to fix the problem, but perhaps xmlto needs a rebuild too?  The 
  >  problem went away in my bulk builds where everything is rebuilt.
  >  
  >  Or maybe this is a different problem caused by the libxml2 update.
 
 Did we figure this out? It seems like we should revert the workarounds
 if they aren't needed.
 
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 David A. Holland
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