Re: gitlab for stretch-backports - call for testing
On 05/02/2018 03:00 PM, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> Hi team,
>
> I have rebuilt gitlab and all dependencies for stretch-backports and
> uploaded here https://people.debian.org/~praveen/gitlab/ (about 157 ruby
> packages were rebuilt).
>
> It starting fine with an initial test, but found some errors in
> production.log. Any help in testing this would be welcome as I hope to
> provide stretch-backports as an upgrade path for gitlab currently in
> stretch (backporting security fixes to 8.13 is very difficult as code
> has diverged too much).
>
> My initial hope was to provide updates via stretch-backports, but sudden
> explosion of nodejs front end dependencies made that impossible. Now all
> nodejs modules are installed via npm/yarn and gitlab is moved to contrib.
>
> More than a 100 node module packages are stuck in NEW for over 5-7
> months and not sure how to get it back in main. If you'd like to help,
> please volunteer with ftp team and help process the node modules.
>
> Thanks
> Praveen
Thanks a lot for this work, really. I just hope your nodejs packages can
go through the NEW queue process. Having a separate repository is really
*not* the same... Though as I've already been there (with 300+ OpenStack
packages), I know how much work that is. So really, thanks for your work.
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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