Re: [bug-inetutils] Is bootstrap script failing everywhere?

[Simon Josefsson]

Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes:

> The same I get in Squeeze, but with Wheezy I never get past
>
>   Resolving deltas: 51% (49800/95589)
>
>> Hm.  Maybe you end up using git over http for some reason?  That will be
>> very inefficient for a large repository like gnulib.
>
> Possibly the handshake is incomplete. Could one stimulate Gnulib
> to do garbage collection or a repository check?
>
> Anyway, I do not any longer fear that GNU Inetutils has an issue,
> instead the Git package family in Debian seems hit by a defect
> I can not really explain, so I find it difficult to formulate
> a proper BTS entry.

Maybe a bug report is in order anyway, just to see if anyone else with a
testing system can reproduce it?  Git is not that complex so it should
be possible to track down what the problem is.

FWIW, I think someone did a garbage collect on the savannah gnulib
repository relatively recently (i.e., within one year).

/Simon