Hi, After discussing with kent\n about an issue with git send-email failing to send email... it was discovered that my system was lacking Perl SSL support. The fix was to merge the module supporting Net::SMTP which is now available via virtual/perl-libnet[ssl]. By depending on virtual/perl-libnet[ssl] it will indicate that git requires Net::SMTP and that it needs SSL support for Net::SMTP.
Dunno why but repoman doesn't like adding that package to RDEPEND: dependency.bad [fatal] 237 dev-vcs/git/git-2.24.3-r1.ebuild: RDEPEND: amd64(default/linux/amd64/17.0) ['virtual/perl-libnet[ssl]'] dev-vcs/git/git-2.24.3-r1.ebuild: RDEPEND: amd64(default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop) ['virtual/perl-libnet[ssl]'] dev-vcs/git/git-2.24.3-r1.ebuild: RDEPEND: amd64(default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/gnome) ['virtual/perl-libnet[ssl]'] dev-vcs/git/git-2.24.3-r1.ebuild: RDEPEND: amd64(default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/gnome/systemd) ['virtual/perl-libnet[ssl]'] dev-vcs/git/git-2.24.3-r1.ebuild: RDEPEND: amd64(default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma) ['virtual/perl-libnet[ssl]'] dev-vcs/git/git-2.24.3-r1.ebuild: RDEPEND: amd64(default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma/systemd) ['virtual/perl-libnet[ssl]'] dev-vcs/git/git-2.24.3-r1.ebuild: RDEPEND: amd64(default/linux/amd64/17.0/developer) ['virtual/perl-libnet[ssl]'] dev-vcs/git/git-2.24.3-r1.ebuild: RDEPEND: amd64(default/linux/amd64/17.0/hardened) ['virtual/perl-libnet[ssl]'] dev-vcs/git/git-2.24.3-r1.ebuild: RDEPEND: amd64(default/linux/amd64/17.0/hardened/selinux) ['virtual/perl-libnet[ssl]'] dev-vcs/git/git-2.24.3-r1.ebuild: RDEPEND: amd64(default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib) ['virtual/perl-libnet[ssl]'] dev-vcs/git/git-2.24.3-r1.ebuild: RDEPEND: amd64(default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/hardened) ['virtual/perl-libnet[ssl]'] dev-vcs/git/git-2.24.3-r1.ebuild: RDEPEND: amd64(default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/hardened/selinux) ['virtual/perl-libnet[ssl]']
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=1a30f566029c364eed607d6a049abd72f54e44cc commit 1a30f566029c364eed607d6a049abd72f54e44cc Author: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-12-07 04:42:15 +0000 Commit: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-12-07 04:46:27 +0000 dev-vcs/git: support git-send-email STARTTLS Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/739452 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.10, Repoman-2.3.22 Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> dev-vcs/git/git-2.29.2.ebuild | 1 + dev-vcs/git/git-9999-r1.ebuild | 1 + dev-vcs/git/git-9999-r2.ebuild | 1 + dev-vcs/git/git-9999-r3.ebuild | 1 + dev-vcs/git/git-9999.ebuild | 1 + 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+)