On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 05:00:57PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
2. We remove multi-tenancy support from the package. Although I really like the idea of the multi-tenancy feature, I don’t like making changes to Debian packages that diverge this much from upstream, precisely because they are hard to maintain.
This.
However, now that we have been shipping this multi-tenancy code, I really don’t like removing it because it will break some current installations.However, if nobody is able to update the multi-tenancy patch to support the 6.x release, I think our only option is to remove the whole patch and related code so that we can ship Redmine in trixie. I have started the work of removing the code, but it is fairly complicated and spread across a number of files, including debian/redmine.postinst and debian/rules. My goal would be to migrate the default instance to the standard Redmine file locations and include a NEWS entry explaining that if anyone is running any other instances they will need to migrate them to a distinct OS running a separate copy of Redmine. However, there is a high chance this automatic migration will fail in some cases I don’t anticipate, so I foresee a lot of pain with going down this route.
This patch was more necessary in a time before we had containers, and maintaining an entire separate OS for a different redmine instances was overkill. It makes much less sense to carry this patch as a Debian-specific patch today.
I stopped using Redmine and caring about it a long, long time ago, and I have other priorities. I can answer specific Ruby/Rails-related questions, but I won't be really digging into this.
Thanks for taking care of Redmine.
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