[Pkg-puppet-devel] Puppet Agent 7 package in Debian Experimental

[Jérôme Charaoui]

Hello,

I'm happy to see the new package being tested more widely!

Regarding Hiera, the version 3 gem is still a hard requirement in puppet 
7 unfortunately. I've poked PuppetLabs about it and even submitted a PR, 
but it seems decoupling from Hiera 3 will only happen in Puppet 8.

https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Puppet/Work#Hiera:_up_to_date.2C_to_be_removed_in_Puppet_8

About Facter, while version 3 seems to be working alongside puppet 7, 
it's true that we should aim to update it to version 4. I've added a 
section on our wiki:

https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Puppet/Work#Facter:_should_be_updated

Thanks,

-- Jerome


Le 2022-08-31 à 05 h 03, Dirk Heinrichs a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> just found your Puppet Agent 7.16.0 package in Debian Experimental. Good 
> to know it exists as Puppetlabs isn't willing to release arm64 packages 
> in the near future.
> 
> Anyway, just wanted to mention two things about the dependencies:
> 
>  1. Hiera is not needed anymore. The Puppet Gem contains Hiera *5*
>     (since Puppet 6 AFAIK), to which many users might have updated their
>     Hiera files already
>  2. Facter should be at version 4.x, not 3.x (the Puppelabs packages
>     ship Facter 4.2.11)
> 
> 
> Having said that, I've got some Puppet test machines here which I could 
> use to betatest your package.
> 
> Bye...
> 
> Dirk
> 
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