[DRE-maint] Bug#940814: gitlab: fails to install due to wrong ruby-asciidoctor version

[Pirate Praveen]

Control: tags -1 pending

On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:29:16 +0000 msa <msa+debian at m0gg.org> wrote:
> this bug affects the unstable as well as the experimental package. It
> was originally encountered on a (fresh) libvirt+qemu instance of debian
> but I decided to try to reproduce it on the official docker image 
> (which is why the kernel version does not indicate a debian system).

We are aware about the issue and it is already fixed in git (we also
need to update ruby-sawyer and ruby-octokit to fix ruby-addressable
update to 2.7).

https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/gitlab/commit/edd69c7b2d9f4190a57a0c7ad15b31bd786ea845

Though we will not be updating the unstable version as we can't
meaningfully support that version (this will require backporting so many
security issues ourseleves, upstream supports a release only for 3 months).

It is recommended to use gitlab from buster-fasttrack
(http://fasttrack.debian.net) as documented in
https://wiki.debian.org/gitlab (which is safe from issues like this).