On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 05:21:53PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > 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.
For such a backport to work for gitlab, you would need to either a) backport ruby-defaults as well to make /usr/bin/ruby by ruby2.7 or b) change all binaries in gitlab to use /usr/bin/ruby2.7 explicitly. a) is very risky as none of the other Ruby software in stable has been tested with ruby2.7. This will cause random stuff to break and I don't want to be involved in supporting that. b) requires changing gitlab somehow anyway, so you might as well fix the actual issues with ruby2.5 instead. FWIW I don't think it's realistic to maintain a fast-moving, enormous beast such as gitlab for stable and expect to not need to get your hands dirty in its code.
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