[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#774643: verify_active_connections is not present in ruby-activerecord 4.1.8

[intrigeri]

Hi,

tl;dr for Debian Ruby Extras maintainers: in Jessie, Puppet's
storeconfig feature can either use activerecord (deprecated, only
works with activerecord 3.x, broken with activerecord 4.x) or PuppetDB
(not packaged in Debian yet). So, currently we have a serious
regression on the Wheezy->Jessie upgrade path.

David Mohr wrote (03 Feb 2015 02:18:51 GMT) :
> I asked about this at puppetlabs:
> http://ask.puppetlabs.com/question/15610/current-activerecords-breaks-puppet-with-storeconfigs/

For the record, what's been replied there is that Puppet 3.7 needs
activerecord 3.x (found in Wheezy) for storeconfig to work without
puppetdb, while Jessie has activerecord 4.1.8, and
ruby-activerecord-3.2 has been removed from unstable in May, 2014.

This sounds RC to me.

Adding the previous maintainers of ruby-activerecord-3.2 into the
loop, in case they have an idea. E.g. would it be an option to
reintroduce the 'verify_active_connections!' method from 3.2 into
Jessie's ActiveRecord::Base:Class? (I guess not, but if it is, then it
would possibly be the easiest way forward.)

Cheers,
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intrigeri