[DRE-maint] Bug#988108: gitlab: Repeated issues resolving dependencies on upgrade

[Pirate Praveen]

On 2021, മേയ് 6 1:03:51 AM IST, Maximilian Stein <m at steiny.biz> wrote:
>Package: gitlab
>Version: 13.9.6+ds1-1~fto10+1
>Severity: important
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>unfortunately, I have repeatedly issues when upgrading gitlab to a new
>version. My system is basically as recommended in the Debian Wiki with
>Buster as basis plus Backports and Fasttrack. However, I am often
>running in a situation that packages are actually *too new* and Gitlab
>fails configuring because it expects a certain version of a package in
>its Gemfile.
>
>E.g., to upgrade to Gitlab version 13.9.6+ds1-1~fto10+1 today, I
>iteratively *downgraded* ruby packages, re-run the Gitlab
>installation, which then failed because another package was too new,
>and so on. Finally, for 13.9.6+ds1-1~fto10+1, I needed to downgrade
>these packages:
>
>* ruby-autoprefixer-rails=10.2.4.0+dfsg1+~cs14.2.17-1
>* ruby-devise-two-factor=3.1.0-2~bpo10+1
>* ruby-fog-google=1.12.1-1~fto10+1
>* ruby-discordrb-webhooks=3.3.0-1
>* ruby-ruby-magic-static=0.3.5-1
>* ruby-gitlab-labkit=0.15.0-1~fto10+2
>* ruby-batch-loader=1.4.1+dfsg.1-3
>* ruby-gitlab-experiment=0.4.9-1~fto10+1
>* ruby-lockbox=0.3.5-2~bpo10+1
>* ruby-rotp=2.1.1+dfsg-1
>
>Of course, I need to hold them all, since they'd be upgraded
>automatically otherwise.
>
>One solution I could think of would be to provide a dependency-package
>with hard version requirements. So, in contrast to
>gitlab-apt-pin-preferences, such a package would directly depend on
>all Gitlab-dependencies in their correct version for a particular
>version of Gitlab. That way, I'd only need to pin a single package and
>get a reproducible working installation. What do you think about that?

You should be installing gitlab 13.11.2. You need to add contrib section to people.debian.org/~praveen/gitaly. This is mentioned in https://wiki.debian.org/gitlab/#New_changes

All dependencies are compatible with this version.

>Best,
>Maximilian
>

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