[Pkg-puppet-devel] Status of puppet and facter packages?

[Apollon Oikonomopoulos]

Hi all,

On 12:44 Mon 27 Nov     , micah wrote:
> Andrew Pollock <apollock at debian.org> writes:
> 
> > I've not been paying particularly close attention to the packaging of Puppet                                             
> > and Facter because of Real Life(tm), but it's been brought to my attention                                               
> > that Facter (at least) is lagging behind what's upstream, so I thought I'd                                               
> > check in.                                                                                                                
> >                                                                                                                          
> > If nothing's planned I might see what I can do about updating facter for a                                               
> > start, in my copious amounts of spare time.                                                                              
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've also noticed that facter is lagging quite a bit. The last update
> was Stig importing 2.4.6 in January of 2016.
> 
> Andrew - are you still interested in updating this?

Just a small status update:

 - I uploaded Puppet 5.4.0 to unstable yesterday. My initial testing was 
   encouraging, and it seems that the migration path from 4.8 to 5.4 is 
   nothing like 3.x to 4: manifests should be mostly compatible, and I 
   assume agent-master compatibility is not broken (haven't verified yet 
   though).

 - I'm looking into facter 3, currently packaging leatherman and 
   cpp-hocon, largely based on previous work by Faidon. If all goes 
   well, I'm planning to do this in a sprint and have everything 
   uploaded before Real Life™ catches on :)

 - PuppetDB is still in a somewhat messy state, mostly because the 
   Clojure libraries need some attention. Now that we got leiningen in 
   the archive, it should be pretty straightforward to get things to 
   build in a reasonable way, but I'm afraid this will have to wait a 
   bit, the bad thing being that PuppetDB won't end up in Ubuntu 18.04.

Cheers,
Apollon