set default .gitlab-ci.yml location to debian/.gitlab-ci.yml

.gitlab-ci.yml needs to be in the root of the git repo, according to the documentation. For a non-native Debian package, no modifications should be made outside of the debian/ directory. So that means that gitlab CI will not work by default for non-native packages, which most packages in Debian are.

It is possible to change the location per-project in settings/ci_cd. I think it would make sense to have the default be debian/.gitlab-ci.yml, then it can be set to .gitlab-ci.yml as needed.

No, that isn't possible. We won't patch gitlab. You can of course ask upstream to create an option for that.

closed

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/41764

upstream ticket moved to https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/20598

Hi,

It looks like the upstream ticket has been resolved[1]. Should we considering making the default to be pointing to a file under debian/? (Preferably debian/salsa-ci.yml which seems to be suggested by the Salsa CI documentation[2].)

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/20598 [2] https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline#activate-salsa-ci