[DRE-maint] Bug#832490: gitlab: fails to install if it was previously installed

[Pirate Praveen]

Control: fixed -1 8.9.0+dfsg-8

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 10:56:21 +1000 Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob at debian.org>
wrote:
> Package: gitlab
> Version: 8.9.0+dfsg-7
> Severity: serious
> 
> ~~~~
> Creating runtime directories for gitlab...
> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/lib/gitlab/.ssh’: File exists
> ~~~~
> 
> Obviously problem was introduced by the following commit:
> 
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-ruby-extras/gitlab.git/commit/?id=184238ef63376049452d7f86107659f511cb2a85
> 
> Could we please avoid introducing new problems with every GitLab upload?

I'd like to, I can ask you to test it before uploading if you are
interested.

> At least until it is stabilised and becomes installable...

This was required because it would fail otherwise on a clean system
which does not have a .ssh directory. Bugs are part of any development
process, there is a reason we have unstable, testing and stable
branches, if you cannot understand that, I suggest you wait till stretch
release.

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