[Pkg-puppet-devel] Dropping puppet-agent?

[Stig Sandbeck Mathisen]

Apollon Oikonomopoulos <apoikos at debian.org> writes:

> Since we (hopefully) have just enough time for a final upload before
> the freeze, I started having a look at #826730 and then #850437, which
> turned out to be the same bug. The conffile situation must obviously
> be resolved before Stretch and the obvious solution would be to keep
> the `puppet' service name, since that's what most systems out there
> are using. In that case, I wonder if it makes any sense at all to keep
> the puppet-agent package around, and seeing you agree with upstream on
> #827867 makes me think it's a good time to drop it.
>
> Before I go ahead and do so, I'd like your approval, just in case I'm
> missing something wrt. the decision to split the packages in the first
> place.

Please go ahead.  The package split makes less sense now than it used
to.

The "puppet-agent" package should also be dropped, since its presence
causes trouble for Puppet (the upstream company) and their packaging of
the software.

-- 
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
https://fnord.no/
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