[DRE-maint] Bug#998193: gitlab: dpkg --configure gitlab fails with NoMethodError: undefined method `build' for debian bullseye

[Pirate Praveen]

On 1 November 2021 12:59:18 am IST, Nikos Frangakis <nikos.frangakis at iccs.gr> wrote:
>Package: gitlab
>Version: 14.1.7+ds1-2~fto11+1
>Severity: grave
>Justification: renders package unusable
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
>
>   * What led up to the situation?
>   Fresh installation of gitlab from fasttrack repository fails with the
>   following error: 
>
>
>Initializing database...
>fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/nokogumbo/html5.rb:13: warning: already initialized constant Nokogiri::HTML5::HTML_NAMESPACE
>/var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/nokogiri-1.12.5-x86_64-linux/lib/nokogiri/html5.rb

Looks like locally installed gems are conflicting. Remove all gems in /var/lib/gems.

We don't need to install any gems from outside Debian now (earlier we had to install them because packaged versions had problems).
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