[DRE-maint] Bug#916243: gitlab installation failure

[Pirate Praveen]

Control: severity -1 important

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:18:30 -0800 Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: gitlab
> Version: 11.3.11+dfsg-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Trying to install gitlab throws the following error, please fix.
> 
> Setting up gitlab (11.3.11+dfsg-1) ...
> `/var/www` is not writable.

You should create a new dedicated user for gitlab. You are trying to reuse an existing user which has its own different home directory and permissions.
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