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

[Thomas Goirand]

On 1/30/20 7:23 AM, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
> 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.

Could you list them? I'd be ok to do that work within the team, if
someone else is working on Puppet itself.

> From a user point of view, the missing modules mainly shows up when
> doing rspec module testing.

So, we're talking about Ruby stuff?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)