[DRE-maint] Bug#969206: 969206: additional info

[Giorgos Skafidas]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:53:45 +0300 Andrius Merkys <merkys at debian.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have attempted patching out dependencies in Gemfile, namely, rails and
> roadie-rails, to accept later major releases. However, I ran into the
> following autopkgtest failures.
> 
> First of all, 'service apache2 restart' fails in autopkgtest on schroot.
> It tries to execute 'systemctl', which apparently is not there, as
> systemd package does not seem to be installed there. Nevertheless, this
> issue could be circumvented by replacing 'service apache2 restart' with
> 'apachectl restart' (not sure about side effects, but at least Apache2
> starts).
> 
> With this patch I continued with autopkgtest 'command1', which checks
> whether the main page of Redmine loads. And this check failed with
> "Redmine 500 error", with the following message in error log:
> 
> Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 208ms (ActiveRecord: 25.5ms |
> Allocations: 74866)
> 
> NotImplementedError (Subclasses must implement a find_templates(name,
> prefix, partial, details, locals = []) method):
> 
> config/initializers/10-patches.rb:74:in `block in find_all'
> config/initializers/10-patches.rb:69:in `find_all'
> lib/redmine/sudo_mode.rb:63:in `sudo_mode'
> 
> I have little idea, but this might be a signal of incompatibility with
> new ruby-rails.
> 
> Andrius
> 
> 

Apparently, Redmine is still in the process of migrating to Rails 6:
https://www.redmine.org/issues/29914