[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#749479: Please include puppet into backports

[Santiago Vila]

On Tue, 27 May 2014, Klaus Ethgen wrote:

> Package: puppet
> Version: 3.6.1-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> As Puppet is doing the backward compatibility the wrong way, there is
> the problem that for the clients is always a current version of puppet
> available but for the server, that would most likely run on stable, only
> a old version is available that is not compatible anymore with the
> puppet client version in sid and testing.
> 
> So please add puppet and puppetmaster to backports to have a working
> setup also with mixed environments.

Hello.

I have an environment in which the clients will likely be upgraded a
lot before than the server, so I would like to see a backport as well.

The puppet source package seems to build ok under wheezy provided you
use dh-systemd, which is already in wheezy-backports.

The only problem is that not all the dependencies are in wheezy.

To summarize what I found so far:

puppet-common depends on:
 ruby-augeas
 ruby-hiera
 ruby-safe-yaml

ruby-augeas
 build-depends on gem2deb (>= 0.5.0~) which needs to be backported as well
 build-depends on libaugeas-dev (>= 1.0.0) which needs to be backported as well

ruby-hiera is in testing but not in stable
 seems to build ok

ruby-safe-yaml is in testing but not in stable
 build-depends on ruby-hashie which needs to be backported as well


I can try to build and upload all this but if someone wants to take
over or just help, that would be more than welcome.

[ Cc: debian-backports ]

Thanks.