Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2019-03-03 Thread Pirate Praveen



On 2019, മാർച്ച് 3 10:45:19 PM IST, Justin Hallett  
wrote:
>Well I hope it comes to that personally, cause I think you have been
>doing a great job, it’s a TON of work to maintain all the depends you
>do for gitlab and honestly there are rarely issues and when they are
>you fix them very quickly after a report.
>
>It’s very upsetting that I now have 10 tickets in my queue because of
>things I can’t do on gitlab since this ticket broke everything!
>
>I have it working but barely and lots of important tasks like PRs
>aren’t working at all.  Let me know if there is anything I can do, test
>or help with in any way.
>

Currently the blocker is rails 5.2 support, tracked in this upstream issue.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/48392

If you can help with that anyway, that'd be great.

>And thank you for all your hard work on this project!
>

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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2019-03-03 Thread Justin Hallett
Well I hope it comes to that personally, cause I think you have been doing a 
great job, it’s a TON of work to maintain all the depends you do for gitlab and 
honestly there are rarely issues and when they are you fix them very quickly 
after a report.

It’s very upsetting that I now have 10 tickets in my queue because of things I 
can’t do on gitlab since this ticket broke everything!

I have it working but barely and lots of important tasks like PRs aren’t 
working at all.  Let me know if there is anything I can do, test or help with 
in any way.

And thank you for all your hard work on this project!

> On Mar 3, 2019, at 3:40 AM, Pirate Praveen  wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 07:45:36 -0700 Justin Hallett  
> wrote:
> > This ticket is bogus and should be closed and removed so that gitlab can be 
> > fixed in testing and restore the faith of its users.
> 
> I think we have not received the same level of respect from the rest of the 
> project. Since everyone is pushing for strict interpretation of rules with no 
> regards to our contribution, I'm also forced to go by the strict 
> interpretation of rules. Once we get gitlab working with rails 5.2, and if 
> this bug is the only blocker, I will close this bug as bogus asserting my 
> rights as the maintainer.
> 
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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2019-03-03 Thread Pirate Praveen
On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 07:45:36 -0700 Justin Hallett  
wrote:
> This ticket is bogus and should be closed and removed so that gitlab can be 
> fixed in testing and restore the faith of its users.

I think we have not received the same level of respect from the rest of the 
project. Since everyone is pushing for strict interpretation of rules with no 
regards to our contribution, I'm also forced to go by the strict interpretation 
of rules. Once we get gitlab working with rails 5.2, and if this bug is the 
only blocker, I will close this bug as bogus asserting my rights as the 
maintainer.

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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2019-03-03 Thread Pirate Praveen
On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 07:45:36 -0700 Justin Hallett  
wrote:
> By keeping this out of testing you are really leaving those of us running it 
> and depending on it in a real mess.  To get rails 2.5 support I had to do 
> some serious Debian badness, this really sucks, couldn’t it just be kept out 
> of backports if that is the issue instead of causing harm to those of us that 
> were happy with it?  Not I have 3 companies that depends on this install that 
> are all up a creek and I can’t even convert to omni (ce) cause you can’t 
> restore a backup of a different version and type (Don’t get me started on 
> this part).
> 
> So those of us that happy using it and are now totally FUBARed, what’s the 
> plan for us while everyone complains and discusses things and we have 
> completely unusable installs now?
> 
> Testing is for testing things after all, how could it go any place if it’s 
> not being tested?  Stable is always too old, heck it has rails 2.3 for 
> heavens sake and php7.0.  Testing is more work but it’s were I choose to run 
> things so I can stay relevant, and in all my years running testing (over 15 
> years) I have never had a major package just get pulled.  I couldn’t use the 
> back ports version since it required rails 2.3, so I had to go to 
> experimental which is nuts.  Pirate Praveen has been doing a great job trying 
> to keep up with countless depends and keeping things up to date and stable 
> and now he is being blocked and in turn breaking every install of testing out 
> there.  This is just insane!!
> 
> This ticket is bogus and should be closed and removed so that gitlab can be 
> fixed in testing and restore the faith of its users.

Now it is going to be removed from stretch-backports as well.

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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2019-02-25 Thread Justin Hallett
By keeping this out of testing you are really leaving those of us running it 
and depending on it in a real mess.  To get rails 2.5 support I had to do some 
serious Debian badness, this really sucks, couldn’t it just be kept out of 
backports if that is the issue instead of causing harm to those of us that were 
happy with it?  Not I have 3 companies that depends on this install that are 
all up a creek and I can’t even convert to omni (ce) cause you can’t restore a 
backup of a different version and type (Don’t get me started on this part).

So those of us that happy using it and are now totally FUBARed, what’s the plan 
for us while everyone complains and discusses things and we have completely 
unusable installs now?

Testing is for testing things after all, how could it go any place if it’s not 
being tested?  Stable is always too old, heck it has rails 2.3 for heavens sake 
and php7.0.  Testing is more work but it’s were I choose to run things so I can 
stay relevant, and in all my years running testing (over 15 years) I have never 
had a major package just get pulled.  I couldn’t use the back ports version 
since it required rails 2.3, so I had to go to experimental which is nuts.  
Pirate Praveen has been doing a great job trying to keep up with countless 
depends and keeping things up to date and stable and now he is being blocked 
and in turn breaking every install of testing out there.  This is just insane!!

This ticket is bogus and should be closed and removed so that gitlab can be 
fixed in testing and restore the faith of its users.



Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2019-02-13 Thread Pirate Praveen
On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 00:55:39 +0100 Dominik George
 wrote:
> >> We had volatile, which, redefined properly, could help. I am trying
> >to draft such a definition.
> >
> >Did you get a chance to work on it?
> 
> I do have this on my todo list for around Christmas.
> 
> People who know me that I deliberately leave out the year, but my intentions 
> are 2018 ;).

Adding this here for completeness
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/12/msg00297.html



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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-12-18 Thread Dominik George
>> We had volatile, which, redefined properly, could help. I am trying
>to draft such a definition.
>
>Did you get a chance to work on it?

I do have this on my todo list for around Christmas.

People who know me that I deliberately leave out the year, but my intentions 
are 2018 ;).

-nik



Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-12-18 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Wednesday, 19 December 2018 9:17:51 AM AEDT Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Did you mean: in an unstable-like “volatile” repo?

Yes perhaps more like "unstable".
I'm saying that IMHO we should have only one common/shared "PPA" for "stable" 
users. I do not want many personal/individual archives.


> Backports have a defined mission, which has nothing to do
> with the “volatile” proposal. What you were referring to,
> integration- and checks-wise, is, I think what you get in
> *any* repository maintained by ftpmasters, so it’d be more
> like sid, except only a partial distribution (add-on).

I also think that we could just relax official "backports" criteria but that 
would be so hard that it seem easier to arrange another "volatile" repo...

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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-12-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Wed, 19 Dec 2018, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:

> trust - a something we can only have in backports-like "volatile" repo.

Did you mean: in an unstable-like “volatile” repo?

Backports have a defined mission, which has nothing to do
with the “volatile” proposal. What you were referring to,
integration- and checks-wise, is, I think what you get in
*any* repository maintained by ftpmasters, so it’d be more
like sid, except only a partial distribution (add-on).

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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-12-18 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Wednesday, 19 December 2018 2:11:43 AM AEDT Holger Levsen wrote:
> instead of volatile we need PPAs.

I think concept of "volatile" is better, stronger.
PPA allows people to ship whatever they want without cooperating in policy 
compliant (official) repo. This is the Debian way where many people work 
together in one centralized resource.
Many people working in many places (PPA) will undermine cooperativeness and 
trust - a something we can only have in backports-like "volatile" repo.

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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-12-18 Thread Pirate Praveen
On 12/18/18 8:41 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 08:38:39PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
>> But if that is not possible, volatile as a separate archive is also fine. 
> 
> instead of volatile we need PPAs.

I think a redefined volatile is the best option for sharing work. But
PPA approach is best in case of conflicts.

I'm leaning towards volatile and hence I proposed it. If you feel
strongly about PPAs, please propose and drive it. Either option will
work for me.



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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-12-18 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 10:12 AM Holger Levsen  wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 08:38:39PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > But if that is not possible, volatile as a separate archive is also fine.
>
> instead of volatile we need PPAs.

Shortly before the Stretch release, when I was scrambling to find a
way to provide updates for webkit2gtk for Stretch's lifetime, I think
volatile was suggested as something that was able to sort of do what I
needed.

But it's not a good example since Debian Security ought to handle
webkit2gtk updates for Buster, as is done with Firefox ESR and
Chromium.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha



Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-12-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 08:38:39PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> But if that is not possible, volatile as a separate archive is also fine. 

instead of volatile we need PPAs.


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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-12-18 Thread Pirate Praveen



On 2018, ഡിസംബർ 18 7:14:14 PM IST, Rhonda D'Vine  wrote:
> And yes, I'm with Alexander, the volatile maintenance can't be dumped
>on the backports team.  It's a different workflow anyway.

My proposal for backports is to have only the dependencies of packages in 
volatile that fall in the current definition of backports kept there, ie,

1. They are already in testing and
2. will be part of next stable.

And use volatile only for packages that cannot fit this criteria. I'd be happy 
to join the backports team to help with the extra load. I hope others will join 
too.

But if that is not possible, volatile as a separate archive is also fine. It is 
just that many packages will have to be in both archives and that is a lot of 
extra work, which I think can be avoided.
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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-12-18 Thread Rhonda D'Vine
Hey,

* Pirate Praveen  [2018-12-18 09:34:46 CET]:
> On 12/3/18 8:11 PM, Dominik George wrote:
> >> well, Debian is using gitlab!!! so this sentence has no sense. The
> >> problem here
> >> is that is a complex software that depends of a lot of pieces and it's
> >> not
> >> easy/possible to fit the definition. So, maybe we should create another
> >> category
> >> of software.
> > 
> > Yes, and that Debian officially uses GitLab, from a foreign source, without 
> > being able to support it in Debian, does make me feel ashamed for the 
> > project.
> > 
> >> maybe creating another kind of repo. debian-contributuions
> >> debian-blabla, whatever.
> >>
> > 
> > We had volatile, which, redefined properly, could help. I am trying to 
> > draft such a definition.
> 
> Did you get a chance to work on it?

 Yes, it looks very much that the shutting down of volatile made wishes
appear for backports to cover it - while it wasn't (and shouldn't) be
the scope for it.  It would make it indistinguishable which packages
within backports are following the regular rules and which would be
those fast moving targets without any useful tracking or upgrade
features in the regular sense.

 (Part of that was btw. also the creation of a seperate sloppy pocket
for backports from oldstable+2 releases, to make it clear what to expect
in there)

 And yes, I'm with Alexander, the volatile maintenance can't be dumped
on the backports team.  It's a different workflow anyway.

 Good luck,
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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-12-18 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, Pirate Praveen wrote:

> [adding -devel to cc]
> 
> On 12/3/18 8:11 PM, Dominik George wrote:
> >> well, Debian is using gitlab!!! so this sentence has no sense. The
> >> problem here
> >> is that is a complex software that depends of a lot of pieces and it's
> >> not
> >> easy/possible to fit the definition. So, maybe we should create another
> >> category
> >> of software.
> > 
> > Yes, and that Debian officially uses GitLab, from a foreign source, without 
> > being able to support it in Debian, does make me feel ashamed for the 
> > project.
> > 
> >> maybe creating another kind of repo. debian-contributuions
> >> debian-blabla, whatever.
> >>
> > 
> > We had volatile, which, redefined properly, could help. I am trying to 
> > draft such a definition.
> 
> Did you get a chance to work on it?
> 
> I think it has to be an extension of backports with dependencies that
> fall within the backports criteria being maintained in backports and
> only packages that cannot be in backports maintained in volatile.
> 
> Original definition of volatile from https://www.debian.org/volatile/:
> "Some packages aim at fast moving targets, such as spam filtering and
> virus scanning, and even when using updated data patterns, they do not
> really work for the full time of a stable release. The main goal of
> volatile is allowing system administrators to update their systems in a
> nice, consistent way, without getting the drawbacks of using unstable,
> even without getting the drawbacks for the selected packages. So
> debian-volatile will only contain changes to stable programs that are
> necessary to keep them functional."
> 
> Proposed definition:
> "Some packages aim at fast moving targets, such as complex web based
> software with very small release cycles and new dependencies, they do
> not receive security support or bug fixes for the full time of a stable
> release. This means backporting targeted fixes are impossible.  The main
> goal of volatile is allowing system administrators to update their
> systems in a nice, consistent way, without getting the drawbacks of
> using unstable, even without getting the drawbacks for the selected
> packages. New dependencies introduced can be maintained in backports
> repository. So debian-volatile will be an extension of debian-backports,
> with dependencies that fall within the criteria maintained in
> debian-backports."
I don't think that -backports is the right suite. It should be something new,
with a new team.

Alex



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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-12-18 Thread Pirate Praveen
[adding -devel to cc]

On 12/3/18 8:11 PM, Dominik George wrote:
>> well, Debian is using gitlab!!! so this sentence has no sense. The
>> problem here
>> is that is a complex software that depends of a lot of pieces and it's
>> not
>> easy/possible to fit the definition. So, maybe we should create another
>> category
>> of software.
> 
> Yes, and that Debian officially uses GitLab, from a foreign source, without 
> being able to support it in Debian, does make me feel ashamed for the project.
> 
>> maybe creating another kind of repo. debian-contributuions
>> debian-blabla, whatever.
>>
> 
> We had volatile, which, redefined properly, could help. I am trying to draft 
> such a definition.

Did you get a chance to work on it?

I think it has to be an extension of backports with dependencies that
fall within the backports criteria being maintained in backports and
only packages that cannot be in backports maintained in volatile.

Original definition of volatile from https://www.debian.org/volatile/:
"Some packages aim at fast moving targets, such as spam filtering and
virus scanning, and even when using updated data patterns, they do not
really work for the full time of a stable release. The main goal of
volatile is allowing system administrators to update their systems in a
nice, consistent way, without getting the drawbacks of using unstable,
even without getting the drawbacks for the selected packages. So
debian-volatile will only contain changes to stable programs that are
necessary to keep them functional."

Proposed definition:
"Some packages aim at fast moving targets, such as complex web based
software with very small release cycles and new dependencies, they do
not receive security support or bug fixes for the full time of a stable
release. This means backporting targeted fixes are impossible.  The main
goal of volatile is allowing system administrators to update their
systems in a nice, consistent way, without getting the drawbacks of
using unstable, even without getting the drawbacks for the selected
packages. New dependencies introduced can be maintained in backports
repository. So debian-volatile will be an extension of debian-backports,
with dependencies that fall within the criteria maintained in
debian-backports."





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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-12-03 Thread Pirate Praveen



On 2018, ഡിസംബർ 3 8:11:58 PM IST, Dominik George  
wrote:
>We had volatile, which, redefined properly, could help. I am trying to
>draft such a definition.

Thanks, that is required to keep gitlab in a supportable form (unstable 
directly is not the best option).

I think an Ubuntu PPA like approach is easier to manage. We can create 
buster-gitlab suite (a suite per such complex software) and we don't have to 
support combination of PPAs.

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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-12-03 Thread Dominik George
>well, Debian is using gitlab!!! so this sentence has no sense. The
>problem here
>is that is a complex software that depends of a lot of pieces and it's
>not
>easy/possible to fit the definition. So, maybe we should create another
>category
>of software.

Yes, and that Debian officially uses GitLab, from a foreign source, without 
being able to support it in Debian, does make me feel ashamed for the project.

>maybe creating another kind of repo. debian-contributuions
>debian-blabla, whatever.
>

We had volatile, which, redefined properly, could help. I am trying to draft 
such a definition.

-nik



Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-12-03 Thread Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
El 30/11/18 a les 15:16, Thorsten Glaser ha escrit:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2018, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> 
>> That is indeed the current definition. The question is about the
>> possibility of changing that definition or finding other ways to

maybe creating another kind of repo. debian-contributuions debian-blabla, 
whatever.

[...]


> If your upstreams aren’t, they’re probably not worth the
> effort using the software.

well, Debian is using gitlab!!! so this sentence has no sense. The problem here
is that is a complex software that depends of a lot of pieces and it's not
easy/possible to fit the definition. So, maybe we should create another category
of software.

Cheers,

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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-12-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 06:01:26PM +0200, Jan Groenewald wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 16:43, Holger Levsen  wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 07:39:20PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > >Backports are *always* from testing because a backport is
> > >supposed to be replaced by the regular stable version of
> > >the subsequent release.
> > That is indeed the current definition.
> 
> Me too is very happy with it.
> 
> > Another option could be to have personal package archive for gitlab.
> 
> That. And if you don't want to wait until they arrive in Debian proper,
> I'd suggest you'd host such an archive yourself.
> 
> 
> There is  https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce
> 
> (deb https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/debian/ stretch main)

That "omnibus package" which contains everything and the kitchen sink is
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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-11-30 Thread Jakob Haufe
On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:01:26 +0200
Jan Groenewald  wrote:

> There is  https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce
> 
> (deb https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/debian/ stretch main)

Sorry, but no. Just no, no, no and no. Those binary dumps are horrible. They
are essentially just dumping 2/3 of an outdated(*) Linux system to /opt.

Pirate Praveen is doing an awesome job of packaging this very complex piece
of software in a proper way and I at least am very grateful for this.
Even if it is only available in unstable, it's a lot better than those
blobs provided upstream.

Cheers,
sur5r

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- openSSL 1.0.0 (??!)
- Python 3.4
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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-11-30 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi

On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 16:43, Holger Levsen  wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 07:39:20PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > >Backports are *always* from testing because a backport is
> > >supposed to be replaced by the regular stable version of
> > >the subsequent release.
> > That is indeed the current definition.
>
> Me too is very happy with it.
>
> > Another option could be to have personal package archive for gitlab.
>
> That. And if you don't want to wait until they arrive in Debian proper,
> I'd suggest you'd host such an archive yourself.
>

There is  https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce

(deb https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/debian/ stretch main)

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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 07:39:20PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> >Backports are *always* from testing because a backport is
> >supposed to be replaced by the regular stable version of
> >the subsequent release. 
> That is indeed the current definition. 

Me too is very happy with it.

> Another option could be to have personal package archive for gitlab.

That. And if you don't want to wait until they arrive in Debian proper,
I'd suggest you'd host such an archive yourself.


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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-11-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 30 Nov 2018, Pirate Praveen wrote:

> That is indeed the current definition. The question is about the
> possibility of changing that definition or finding other ways to

No. It’s there for good reasons, including stability.

> accommodate fast changing software like gitlab. Broadening the

Find a way to pick stable, slow changing versions of it
and improve their packaging in testing/unstable so you
can backport it.

Work with upstream towards that goal. Some upstreams are
receptive of stabilising certain versions in order to
get packaged.

If your upstreams aren’t, they’re probably not worth the
effort using the software.

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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-11-30 Thread Pirate Praveen



On 2018, നവംബർ 30 5:14:20 PM IST, Thorsten Glaser  wrote:
>On Fri, 30 Nov 2018, Pirate Praveen wrote:
>
>> How about allowing gitlab to be backported directly from unstable?
>
>No.
>
>Backports are *always* from testing because a backport is
>supposed to be replaced by the regular stable version of
>the subsequent release. 

That is indeed the current definition. The question is about the possibility of 
changing that definition or finding other ways to accommodate fast changing 
software like gitlab. Broadening the definition of backports is one possible 
option I see. Another option could be to have personal package archive for 
gitlab.
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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-11-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 30 Nov 2018, Pirate Praveen wrote:

> How about allowing gitlab to be backported directly from unstable?

No.

Backports are *always* from testing because a backport is
supposed to be replaced by the regular stable version of
the subsequent release. Hence, only from testing, in the
hope that the package being in testing means the package
will be in the next stable. (Which also means that, when
the package gets removed from testing, the backport should
probably be deleted.)

Backports are *not* a primary means of delivering software.

Backports are for people who think they need the software
from Debian x+1 on Debian x.

bye,
//mirabilos
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Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-11-30 Thread Pirate Praveen



On 2018, നവംബർ 30 1:29:59 AM IST, Moritz Muehlenhoff  wrote:
>Source: gitlab
>Severity: serious
>
>Gitlab is too fast-moving with weekly releases and backporting security
>fixes has already
>failed us for stretch, keep it out of testing.
>
>To meaningfully support it for use on stable, this would require some
>of the
>infrastructure/policy changes discussed in the "What can Debian do to
>provide
>complex applications to its users" thread from earlier the year on
>debian-devel.
>

How about allowing gitlab to be backported directly from unstable? I'm willing 
to volunteer for backports ftp team.
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