[DRE-maint] Bug#964097: gitlab: "git push" fails with a stacktrace in gitlab code due to outdated ruby version

[Pirate Praveen]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 16:18, Maximilian Stein <m at steiny.biz> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>  We discussed this in the ruby team [1] and preferred method is to
>>  patch gitlab to work with ruby 2.5, but we will need some volunteers
>>  for that. I will try add ruby 2.7 in fasttrack if we see a lot of
>>  issues with ruby 2.5.
>> 
> Ok, I see. I'll of course continue to report issues that I notice. Is
> there maybe an automatic test suite that can be run against gitlab to
> systematically check for such issues? A "git push" seems like a very
> basic operation that should be covered by such tests.

We are planning to run functional tests as autopkgtest in gitlab but we 
need some more gems packaged See the current status 
https://git.fosscommunity.in/debian-ruby/TaskTracker/-/issues/154

I plan to at least verify the syntax is still valid for ruby 2.5 for 
every new release.

See 
https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/gitlab/-/blob/master/debian/check-ruby-syntax.sh#L4