Hello,

On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 21:18, Andrej Shadura <andre...@debian.org> wrote:

> While I don’t work on the OBS package in Debian, I know about the state
> of the package in Debian right now: the team, and most notably the main
> maintainer, Andrew Lee, need help to maintain this package, as it
> requires a lot of work due to a combination of Ruby / Ruby on Rails,
> Perl and shell bits. Ruby parts specifically is a pain point, since
> there’s a lot of gems this package depends on and updating one or
> multiple of them can break OBS in ways the upstream didn’t think about.
>
> The package has already missed Buster and Bullseye, and if the situation
> doesn’t improve, it may result in a removal at some point.

For the Ruby gems issue, bundling those as in Kubernetes resolution[0]
might be a way forward.

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/835599/

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