Re: Request to fast track gitlab dependencies
On Sun, 03 Mar 2019, Pirate Praveen wrote:
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> On 2019, മാർച്ച് 3 2:15:27 PM IST, Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de> wrote:
> >On Mon, 07 Jan 2019, Pirate Praveen wrote:
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> >> On 12/20/18 9:50 AM, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> >> > I have also asked gitlab about their commitment to continue funding
> >even
> >> > if I stop working on it. I have also asked them if they are open to
> >> > funding a team instead of just me.
> >> >
> >> > I will update here once they respond.
> >>
> >> Just an update: gitlab team has agreed to expand the team and now
> >> Abhijith and Sruthi can get paid to work on gitlab maintenance. So
> >now 3
> >> people are funded by Gitlab Inc to maintain gitlab in Debian.
> >I came to my attention that the gitlab package isn't in testing
> >anymore. That
> >means it will get removed from backports soon, are there any plans to
> >get it
> >back to testing?
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> It is blocked by security team because they don't want it in stable.
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> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915050
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> It'd be disappointing to have it removed from backports now. I thought the plan to remove it from testing was already known when gitlab was accepted into backports.
And we always told you that we will remove it when it leaves testing, you
just ignored the fact.
Alex
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