[DRE-maint] Bug#1040819: gitlab postinst fails with gem version number parsing error

[Pirate Praveen]

On 11/07/23 10:34 am, Jakob Bohm wrote:
> Package: gitlab
> Version: 15.10.8+ds1-1~fto12+1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> When trying to install gitlab (fasttrack) in a mostly blank bookworm VM,
> postinst fails with the following messages:
> 
>    Setting up gitlab (15.10.8+ds1-1~fto12+1) ...
>    Could not find gem 'pg (~> 1.4.5, >= 1.4.5)' in cached gems or installed
>    locally.
> 
>    The source contains the following gems matching 'pg':
>      * pg-1.5.2
>    dpkg: error processing package gitlab (--configure):
>    installed gitlab package post-installation script subprocess returned
>    error exit status 1
> 
> This looks like an error parsing some notation that version 1.4.5 or later
> of some ruby gem is needed when version 1.5.2 is actually available.

It should have been '~> 1.4, >= 1.4.5', but this is already fixed in 
latest versions which has

gem 'pg', '~> 1.5', '>= 1.5.3'

We only support installing one version (latest) of gitlab at any time.

> I suspect the version relationship was expressed in a way not supported by
> the only available ruby-rubygems package, but possibly by some other not
> available implementation not explicitly specified as a gitlab dependency
> rule.  Of cause it could be some other ruby package responsible for the
> expression in the error message or its parsing.
> 
> P.S.
> 
> A mostly blank bookworm VM would consist only of bookworm core packages,
> SysV init, git packages and site specific configuration of stuff such as
> networking.

You can try installing the latest version of gitlab which is 
16.0.7+ds1-3~fto12+2
> P.P.S.
> 
> I am not Irish, its just the only English EU locale
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