Hi,
On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 12:11:25PM +0000, Wim Bertels wrote:
> there are packages to use in debian for this purpose; ie project
> management (eg tickets, wiki, ..) and version control (eg git).
> Ideally, these packages should be dist-upgradable, as Debian is
> known for it's stability (eg Debian 11 > Debian 12)
>
> but it seems this is not so straightforward? (unless i miss
> something clear in the landscape):
You haven;t missed anything, but it is not related to these being
project management solutions ("forges"). It's related to them being
large and complicated web applications with many dependencies.
You see the same sort of thing with e.g. Mailman 3.
They are just hard to package, any such packaging necessarily
diverges from upstream, upgrades become complicated and so on.
For software like this which either isn't packaged in Debian or the
packaging is limited, I tend to make use of virtual machines or
containers and just go with upstream's install instructions. It's
not great but it is often the easiest way.
Thanks,
Andy
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