[Pkg-puppet-devel] Notes from the Puppet BoF @ DebConf18

[Apollon Oikonomopoulos]

Hi again,

On 13:30 Sat 04 Aug     , Apollon Oikonomopoulos wrote:
> Towards the freeze
> ------------------
> 
> The Puppet 6 timeline is not concrete yet. According to [1], release is 
> expected this fall, which should give us enough time before freeze. No 
> major DSL changes are expected; however, upstream says that they will 
> try to split built-in puppet types (e.g. like Nagios) into separate 
> modules. So far the following types seem to have been removed from 
> master and split out to standalone modules:
> 
>   - mount (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mount_core)
>   - zfs (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-zfs_core)
>   - selinux (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-selinux_core)
>   - augeas (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-augeas_core)
>   - nagios (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-nagios_core)
>   - sshkeys (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-sshkeys_core)
>   - cron (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-cron_core)
>   - host (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-host_core)
> 
> According to [1], these modules will be included in puppet-agent at 
> packaging time; it remains to be seen if this includes the official 
> tarballs as well, and if not, whether we'll bundle them in the puppet 
> package or use individual packages.
> 
> Finally, extrapolating from [1], Puppet 5.x should have a good couple of 
> years until EOL, so it could still be chosen for Buster, in case Puppet 
> 6 turns out to be impossible.

https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/5.5/release_notes.html#deprecations

Upstream will remove the Ruby CA from Puppet 6 and rely on Puppet Server 
instead, which makes Puppet Server a prerequisite for Puppet 6 in Debian 
):.

/A