Antonio, On Saturday, March 15, 2025 3:28:25 PM Mountain Standard Time Antonio Terceiro wrote: > 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.
Thanks for your response. Unless someone else responds differently, I will proceed down this route next week. > > 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. And thank you for your contributions to Redmine in the past. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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