[maemo-developers] Multiple packages for Git in Maemo Extras (git and git-core)

[From: Thomas Perl]

Hi!

I've just noticed that there are different packages of Git in the
Extras repository: One is called "git"[1] and the other "git-core"[2]
- with different maintainers and different versions. It would be nice
if we could find a way to resolve this issue and get one of the
packages removed (or at least replaced with an empty dummy package
that simply depends on the other package). I'll leave it up to you
(Khertan and Wes, the maintainers of these packages) to decide which
one we should be moving forward with. "git-core" has a newer version,
but is not optified AFAICT. I have not tried "git" yet. In Debian,
"git" is the current package name, while "git-core" is now just a
transitional package depending on "git", so maybe we should do the
same in Maemo Extras (just from a naming perspective, I don't care who
maintains it, as long as someone does).

Thanks,
Thomas

[1] http://maemo.org/packages/view/git-core/
[2] http://maemo.org/packages/view/git/