Bug#908678: security-tracker - Breaks salsa.d.o

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi Bastian,

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 03:10:56PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Package: security-tracker
> Severity: critical
> 
> The security tracker git repository is in a state which git does not
> really like.  git clone takes ages, fsck takes ages, repack is reported
> to be impossible.
> 
> The GitLab on salsa.d.o also chokes on it some times during git
> operations.  Some may be attributed to the old diff formatter problem,
> which I hope gets fixed soon.  But lately it even caused stalls on git
> operation.
> 
> As the problems caused by the state of this repo now causes user visible
> outages, this needs to be fixed.

Do you have any hints at us on what we could look at to faciliate/help
more salsa maintainers?

What is actually this old diff formater problem you mentioned which
going to be solved? Would it in the meantime help to make the access
only for logged in users/restricted?

Regards,
Salvatore