On Tue, 05 Jun 2018, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > On Monday, 4 June 2018 11:25:41 PM AEST Alexander Wirt wrote: > > Please don't expect us to ever switch to packages - that will not happen. > > That's an interesting statement. Why? > > Do you think Praveen did all the enormous effort of packaging GitLab for > nothing? Do you reckon that packaging software adds no value? The effort is not for us. Do you think we did all the effort for a proper administration for nothing? > > I understand trade-off between stability of a package versus convenient > volatility of git repository that you can patch at your own discretion. > Yet I think that official Debian service ideally should be based on official > Debian package and that service administrators should be working together > with package maintainers, helping each other. > > It is not viable to install everything from git. So how would you chose when > to use packages and when to use git? > > What about "gitaly"? This particular component of GitLab is written in Golang > and it needs to be built from source. Why do you compile "gitaly" from source > Gentoo-style instead of using properly built Debian package? Because we want to react fast, without dsa. We don't have root. > > What makes Salsa so special to say that using properly packaged components > from "main" is inappropriate? Its not special, most services are run like that. > "This will not happen" is a strong statement. Is packaging software for > Debian so hopeless that there is nothing GitLab maintainers could ever do to > make you change your mind and embrace work of fellow Debian developers? Unless the ways services are run on DSA managed hosts changes, we will not move to packages. Alex
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