Hi,
gitlab stopped working with ruby 2.5 (they officially dropped support
long ago, but it was working fine till now). See
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/225251 for details. In
last stable release we were lucky things worked with ruby 2.3 even
though it was not officially supported.
Option 1. Backport ruby 2.7
I could upload it to fasttrack as well, but I'd prefer more people
benefit it by having it in backports since I'm doing the backport work
anyway.
On a gitlab installation,
$ ls /usr/share/rubygems-integration/2.5.0/specifications/ -1 |wc -l
47
So we will have to backport at least these many modules as well.
Option 2. Patch gitlab to work with ruby 2.5
We can also try to fix issues with ruby 2.5 as and when we notice it as
well, but if there not many takers for it, I don't think that can work
well.
Option 1 requires only packaging knowledge but Option 2 requires ruby
knowledge.
Thanks
Praveen
