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

[Maximilian Stein]

Hi,
> We cannot support more than one version of gitlab at any time. Gitlab by nature has fast releases and only way to keep up is keep updating gitlab. Only if upstream provides a long term supported version, we can support a gitlab version for longer than a month. Currently our goal is to go along with the upstream releases.
>
> If there are more volunteers we can probably extend it up to 3 months. Even more resources will be required if we want to provide support for more than that.
>
>
Yes, I can fully understand this, and this is basically ok. My issue is 
simply that I am kind of forced to upgrade as soon as possible and 
cannot even delay that for a week or so. Usually I automatically update 
all packages each night except Gitlab which is on hold, but since there 
might be updates to dependencies of Gitlab, Gitlab can still break 
easily… I do not see a very good solution to that either apart from 
holding all ruby packages.


Best,
Maximilian


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