Description of gitlab package
Hi
[Declaration of possible Conflict of Interest: I am currently an employee of
GitLab]
GitLab upstream has asked if we could mention in the description of our Debian
package that it is different from the official one they provide, using omnibus.
Because both us and them provide package to Debian, and through that to Ubuntu,
users may get confused. They had incidents where people using Ubuntu packages
reported the issues against upstream package and after long discussion only it
was found out that the problem was the native package.
What they propose is we simply mention in our one line description is that our
package is non-omnibus and maybe add a line or two in the detailed description.
Since I too feel this is a harmless modification, I think we can make this
change. Moreover this provides better information to the users regarding what
they are installing and that it is different from something similar that
upstream is providing.
I understand the proper response to the user who responded was to ask them to
file issue on launchpad, but I wouldn't really blame the user for being
confused with two packages.
If no one has any objection (please respond by this week), I will change the
package description to reflect this information.
--
Balasankar C
http://balasankarc.in
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