GitLab - missing dependency (seems to be non-critical and easily fixed by end user)

[JedMeister]

When testing the (upcoming) GitLab v17.1 (Debian 11/Bullseye based) release, I noticed this message in the log:

ffi-libarchive could not be loaded, libarchive is probably not installed on system, archive_file will not be available

It doesn't seem to be system critical, so I'm not going to rebuild it (mostly because it's a PITA). However, to provide that, the dependency can be installed like this:

apt install -y libarchive13

[Christie018]

Do you think this dependency should be included in the appliance's plan/main file? Or should we leave it up to the end user to decide?

[JedMeister]

@Christie018 - Yep. We'll want to just add libarchive13 (or it's equivalent in Bookworm) to the GitLab appliance plan/main.

[update] It looks like libarchive13 is in Bookworm