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Re: Steps for updating rails apps like gitlab and diaspora



Hi,

On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 05:46:15PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> From my experience updating last few versions of gitlab and diaspora, I
> have come up with the steps for updating a rails app.
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/Packaging/newUpstreamRailsApp
> 
> Keys points,
> 
> 1. Don't upload to unstable directly, use experimental or a personal
> staging repo.
> 2. Don't update any library if it comes in dependency chain of diaspora
> and gitlab, coordinate with upstreams and update in sync.
> 
> Balasankar has been tirelessly working on the dependency tracker to make
> things much easier.
> http://debian.fosscommunity.in/status/?appname=diaspora&sort=satisfied
> 
> There is nice tracker for comparing apps like diaspora and gitlab and
> see mismatch in common libraries
> http://debian.fosscommunity.in/compare/?appname=diaspora&appname=gitlab
> 
> Please review/modify/update. We are discussing diaspora 0.5.5.1 update
> here https://gitlab.com/debian-ruby/TaskTracker/issues/24
> 
> How about integrating this with tracker.debian.org so we know in advance
> if a new upstream release is going to break diaspora or gitlab before we
> update and also if a current version in the archive is not matching
> upstream requirement.

Thanks for organizing this! Unfortunately I don't have the time to look
into the details now, but the next time I work on redmine I will
probably check it out.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>

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