[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#978663: facter: please package facter 4.x

[Louis-Philippe Véronneau]

Package: src:facter
Severity: wishlist

Dear maintainer,

While puppet 6 still supports facter 3.x, I think it wouldn't be a bad
idea to package facter 4.x in the archive.

It seems the current version of puppet in Debian (puppet 5) requires the
3.x version though [1], so we can't just push 4.x to sid.

Considering facter 4.x is a re-write in ruby, I think the best option
would be to create a "facter4" package and keep facter in Debian as
"facter3".

[1]: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/5.5.22/.gemspec#L33

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