[Pkg-puppet-devel] Packaging for Ubuntu

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Sat Mar 28 20:28:54 UTC 2009


Ryan Steele <ryans at aweber.com> writes:

> Upon suggestion by Russ Allbery, I wanted to send an email to this list
> to inquire about joining the packaging efforts for Puppet.
> Specifically, I'd be willing to package it for Ubuntu (incidentally, it
> if this is the wrong list - seeing as how it's hosted at debian.org -
> please let me know).

It should be the right list -- the idea basically is that Ubuntu and
Debian should be close enough, and the versions of Debian close enough,
that the same package for Debian unstable should be able to be installed
on every different version of both Ubuntu and Debian without much effort.

> I had initially suggested hosting a PPA, since I wanted to be able to
> quickly package the latest versions of Puppet as they arrived for the
> current stable version of Ubuntu, but Russ suggested that would be
> duplicating the efforts of the current maintainers, thus this email.
> Please let me know what I can do to help.

I was a bit too hasty in my reply -- the PPA would still be useful since
it provides an installable archive for Ubuntu users.  However, I can't
think of any reason not to share the same Git repository and packaging
work with the Debian packaging and then just upload to both Debian
unstable and to a separate PPA for supported Ubuntu releases.

Does that make sense?

Normally all that needs to be done is importing the new Puppet release
from the upstream Git repository into the Debian Git repository and
merging as needed.  Micah's been the one who's mostly been doing that, but
I don't think he's had a chance for 0.24.8 yet.

(I'm unfortunately too busy with other things to be able to help a lot;
I'm just a gadfly on the list.)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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