libgit2 SHA-256 support
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The libgit2 offers SHA-256 support as "experimental" feature.
Starting with 1.9.2+ds-3, Debian provides both the mainline and
experimental SHA-256 enabled version as separate packages:

* libgit2-dev                -- Development package, SHA-1 only
* libgit2-<X.Y>              -- Shared library without SHA-256 support
* libgit2-experimental-dev   -- Development package, SHA-256 enabled
* libgit2-experimental<X.Y>  -- Shared library with SHA-256 support

You cannot install both libgit2-dev and libgit2-experimental-dev,
because libgit2-experimental-dev is intended as drop-in replacement
and ships with conflicting compatibility symlinks.

The upside is that package maintainers can opt-in for SHA-256 support
simply by updating their build dependency.

 -- Timo Röhling <roehling@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:14:53 +0200