Hello, On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 21:18, Andrej Shadura <andre...@debian.org> wrote:
> While I don’t work on the OBS package in Debian, I know about the state > of the package in Debian right now: the team, and most notably the main > maintainer, Andrew Lee, need help to maintain this package, as it > requires a lot of work due to a combination of Ruby / Ruby on Rails, > Perl and shell bits. Ruby parts specifically is a pain point, since > there’s a lot of gems this package depends on and updating one or > multiple of them can break OBS in ways the upstream didn’t think about. > > The package has already missed Buster and Bullseye, and if the situation > doesn’t improve, it may result in a removal at some point. For the Ruby gems issue, bundling those as in Kubernetes resolution[0] might be a way forward. [0] https://lwn.net/Articles/835599/ -- Héctor Orón -.. . -... .. .- -. -.. . ...- . .-.. --- .--. . .-.
