[Pkg-puppet-devel] Backporting puppet 5 to stretch?

[Georg Faerber]

Hi,

On 20-07-08 12:24:08, Gabriel Filion wrote:
> I'm sorry for side-tracking the discussion again: I just thought of a
> detail that might help some folks whenever we're able to get
> puppetserver 6 landed in debian.
> 
> would it be a good idea to backport the puppet package to
> stretch-backports? this would make it possible for debian stretch
> machines to stay connected to the puppetmaster after having upgraded
> it to puppetserver 6.
> 
> of course, this side-subject is not meant to put something else on the
> front burner. this topic may be postponed until we do have
> puppetserver in the package archives.

Initially, it was announced [1], that

    Please keep in mind that backports doesn't follow LTS. Which means
    that we will drop support for oldstable (stretch) around one year
    after the release of buster. Thats in sync with the - official -
    security support for oldstable.

However, I'm not aware of the current state in regards to this.

Apart from that, I'm not sure if the version of puppet provided in
buster is compatible with Ruby 2.3 as shipped in stretch.

Cheers,
Georg


[1] https://backports.debian.org/news/buster-backports/