Re: git-fetch in 1.5.4 fails versus 1.5.3.8

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Jeff King wrote:

FWIW, this is not about OpenSSL for SHA1; it is about the underlying
library used by curl to do SSL (gnutls vs openssl).

My comment was about claiming "not distributable". That was simply not 
true. It's perfectly distributable, it's just Debian that has issues with 
OpenSSL (but then they shouldn't link it against curl either, so there 
seems to be some _other_ problem there too).

And the problem is that curl linked against gnutls seems _broken_, so 
Anand has asked if Debian can ship a binary git linked against a curl 
that is linked against openssl (and the answer is probably "no, Debian 
people think that is wrong").

Sure. And you can probably fix it by using NO_OPENSSL, which uses the 
Mozilla SHA1 library. As I also pointed out.

In short - I just wanted to make sure that we do not make the insane 
Debian policies somehow official git ones.

			Linus