From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konstantin Khomoutov Subject: Re: git-core vs git package on ubuntu Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:06:57 +0400 Message-ID: <20130125180657.648f2d985a43d4c80133c599@domain007.com> References: <4A4C2896-042A-4BE3-9E74-012D881D5776@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Mario Michael Krell X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 25 15:07:34 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TyjwL-00072w-WC for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:07:34 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756099Ab3AYOHN (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:07:13 -0500 Received: from mailhub.007spb.ru ([84.204.203.130]:52518 "EHLO mailhub.007spb.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755423Ab3AYOHL (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:07:11 -0500 Received: from programmer.Domain007.com (programmer.domain007.com [192.168.2.100]) by mailhub.007spb.ru (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with SMTP id r0PE6vWN006714; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:06:58 +0400 In-Reply-To: <4A4C2896-042A-4BE3-9E74-012D881D5776@googlemail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i686-pc-mingw32) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:50:24 +0100 Mario Michael Krell wrote: > In your documentation you say, that git should be installed on Unix > using > > apt-get install git-core Note that Ubuntu is not Unix. > Unfortunately it tells the user, that this package is obsolete and > "git" should be used instead. Is this an error in the package manager > or in the website documentation? Neither of them. Git was packaged for Debian (and hence appeared in Ubuntu) when another package with the name "git" already existed in the archive, and was unrelated to Git. So the Git package maintainer picked the name "git-core". After that, the maintainers of both packages discussed this issue and the maintainer of the original package named "git" agreed to change the name of his package, and then, subsequently, "git-core" has been renamed to "git", and the "git-core" package has been turned into transitional dummy obsolete package. Now, whenever you're trying to install the "git-core" package, the package system tells you it's obsolete and suggests the "correct" package to install. After some time (the next OS release or later), the "git-core" package will be removed completely from the archive. This is the standard way to handle such situations in Debian and its derivatives, so nothing special here. The documentation on the whatever site you were referring to should probably be updated as git-core is obsolete even in the current stable release of Debian [1]. I'm not sure which LTS release of Ubuntu is currently supported, but you might check the state of the git-core package in it yourself, using [2]. 1. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/git-core 2. http://packages.ubuntu.com