[Pkg-puppet-devel] the future of Puppet inside Debian?

[micah]

Thanks for the useful information Jonas!

Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm at debian.org> writes:

> Jonas Genannt <jonas.genannt at capi2name.de> writes:
>
>> since Puppet 4 (4.1) is released Puppetlabs has decided to deprecate
>> Rack Server support in Puppet [1].
>>
>> The "new" Puppet-Server is like the PuppetDB written in Clojure and
>> also uses JRuby.
>
> I think I can safely say that I'm not up to packaging Clojure based
> software.
>
> I've given it a few tries, but the Puppet packaging team would benefit
> more from someone with more familiarity with the java packaging tools.

I'm also at a loss here about what we can do, I also have no clue about
Clojure. I think very few distributions have Clojure experience and
packages, so I find this move a bit frustrating from PuppetLabs because
it means the distributions will be struggling quite a bit. I wonder if
it might make sense to write something to the puppet upstream list about
how this is a problem and if PuppetLabs has any ideas about how to make
this easier. They have been really good at dealing with security issues
and distributions, so maybe they can figure something out here.

> Is anyone else with an interest in Puppet packaging going to Heidelberg
> for DebConf this year?  I'd like to work a bit on the Puppet packaging
> there.

Unfortunately, I wont be able to make it to Debconf this year :(

micah