[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#950182: Puppet 5.5 EOL in November 2020

[Stig Sandbeck Mathisen]

Antoine Beaupre <anarcat at debian.org> writes:

> ... the upgrade from 5 to 6 doesn't involve much churn in the DSL, so
> it's not as big of a deal as the 3 to 4 or 4 to 5 migrations we had to
> suffer through. The tooling does change, however, so it might be
> tricky on the packaging side (which is why, I am guessing, P6 is not
> yet in Debian).

The biggest difference I've seen between Puppet 5 and 6 is that many
previously built-in resource types have moved from the puppet repository
to external modules. Puppet include those in their own packaging. We
will have to package those as well, and add them as dependencies.

>From a user point of view, the missing modules mainly shows up when
doing rspec module testing. I need to add those modules to the test
fixtures when using Puppet 6.

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Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Debian Developer