ERROR: Package libgit2 not found

[Dirk Hohndel]

On November 9, 2014 12:07:14 PM Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > > On Nov 9, 2014, at 6:07 AM, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <
> > cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Answer to myself:
> > >
> > > $ pkg-config --print-errors --exists libgit2
> > > Package libssh2 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> > > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libssh2.pc'
> > > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> > > Package 'libssh2', required by 'libgit2', not found
> > >
> > > I needed to install package libssh2-1-dev.  Patch attached.
> > > INSTALL needs to be updated too.
> >
> > I don’t see Subsurface requiring libssh2. A quick git grep shows no
> > mention. Is it possible that this is an issue with libgit2 packaging on
> > Debian?
> >
>
> Looks so.
> But if some compile libgit with ssh and others don't, it's not safer to
> require both?

I'd prefer to understand what's going on. To me it seems packaging is 
broken for that package if it requires another package but doesn't have a 
dependency

/D