[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#892908: Bug#892908: puppet 5 is now builtin to puppet since 4.9

[Louis-Philippe Véronneau]

block 924409 by -1
thanks

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 15:35:07 +0200 Apollon Oikonomopoulos
<apoikos at debian.org> wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 puppet: Hiera 5 is now built-in, please drop hiera 3 dependency
> Control: tags -1 wontfix
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 07:32 Wed 14 Mar     , Gabriel Filion wrote:
> > I'm just curious whether the package's dependency on the hiera package 
> > is still needed. hiera 3.x (as distributed by the hiera package) is 
> > still maintained but I'm wondering if we require it with newer puppet
> > installs.
> 
> It appears it's still necessary, at least in order to provide backward 
> compatibility. Puppet itself declares it as a runtime dependency in its 
> gemspec, so I guess it's not that easy to get rid of it (thus marking it 
> as `wontfix' for the time being).

Dear maintainer,

Would it be possible to reconsider this decision now that Buster has
been released?

Upstream still lists the hiera gem as part of their gemspec for
compatibility reason, but I think it's safe to say people have had time
to move from Hiera 3 to Hiera 5.

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