Bug#899035: libgit2 0.27 transition

[Pirate Praveen]

On Sat, 19 May 2018 10:37:53 +0530 Pirate Praveen 
<praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
> On May 18, 2018 11:50:35 PM GMT+05:30, Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:

> >Have you tried building reverse-dependencies like gitg against the
> >new libgit2?
> 
> I wanted to give a heads up earlier. I will rebuild all the reversed dependencies now.

I have started rebuilding reverse dependencies and closed bugs of those 
who succeeded to build against the new version (birdfont, callingra, 
fritzing, gall, gnuastro).

gitg (and geany-plugins) is failing to build because mbedtls does not 
provide a pkg-config file (#900015). libgit2 now supports mbedTLS 
backend as alternative to building against openssl. Earlier versions of 
libgit2 were using a debian specific patch to use curl with gnutls 
instead, but upstream does not want to use curl and prefers mbedTLS.