Hi Daniel, [Cc:ing you because I'm not sure you are subscribed to debian-ruby] On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:19:07AM +0100, Daniel Martí wrote: > I couldn't do much about gitlab during the break, but I'm now making up > for it :) I contacted Alexander Golovko <alexandro@ankalagon.ru>, who > has forked the gitlab project from github and worked on a working debian > package. He has allowed me to work on gitlab taking advantage on his > already done work, which is fantastic. There will need to be lots of > modifications, like the removing of the binary gitlab-bundle package for > the ruby gems amongst others. > Just a few questions: > - I believe it is sensible to keep his current changelog file in > essence, since it has been him doing the work on the package source. > Would you agree? Would it be better to sum it all up in one pre-debian > changelog entry, or would it be best to just ignore his changelog and > just mention him in the debian/copyright file? I think it will be a bit confusing if you keep the current changelog entries in debian/changelog, as they are documented as being uploaded to unstable, but in fact there were not. So I would remove these entries, but you can add in your changelog entry a paragraph about the changes made by Alexander Golovko (in a summarized form) [ Alexander Golovko ] * this [ You ] * this But maybe others have another opinion on this. > - I'll need to package a few gems, as well as gitlab itself. The plan is > to package them all under pkg-ruby-extras; would that suit you? I see > here [0] that many other apps such as jekyll are in there too, so I > guess it fits in there. Yes, it fits. Ask to join pkg-ruby-teams if you haven't done it already. > - Will we wait for the freeze to end to start bringing the packages to > the main repos, or will we start using sid/experimental right away? > I'm not very experienced with ITPs as of yet, I was just wondering. You can start with sid right away for new packages. If you need to update some packages already present in the archive to a newer version, then you should target experimental. In any case, there is no need to wait the end of the freeze (although during the freeze, it can take a long time to have new packages enter the archive). Cheers, Cédric
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