On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 02:08:00PM +0200, Cédric Boutillier wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 12:07:01AM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > > Hi, > > > 7 gems that remains to be packaged [1] for gitlab are forks. I'm > > discussing with upstream about merging them back to their original > > projects, but it will take time. > > > I think it is okay to embed them for the time being as maintaining two > > separate packages does not make sense. > > The version of ruby-grit we have in the archive is already the one > patched by Gitlab, according to the long description of the package. > > For the other gems which are not packaged yet, we could have the "real" > upstream version packaged (without the -gitlab- name), with on top of > that the Gitlab specific changes as a patch. It would make easier to > switch to the full upstream version once the Gitlab patch is merged. > This is feasible only for packages where the diff is small, which may be agreed. in general, I would like us to stop using "let's embed dependencies" as a first reaction, but rather as a very last resort _after_ we tried the Right Way™ and it's definitively the only alternative left. -- Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
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