[Pkg-puppet-devel] removing puppet source package from unstable/testing

[Thomas Goirand]

On 8/29/22 17:59, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I just had the chance to test the Puppet agent 7 packages from
> experimental that Jerome uploaded, and I must say they work
> flawlessly. I tested them, on bookworm, only against a Puppet server 5
> installation, running bullseye, but it's a pretty clean transition.
> 
> I think we should make room for that package in unstable now. I propose
> that we should RM (remove) the current `puppet` source package from
> Debian unstable. The new puppet-agent package from experimental builds a
> binary `puppet` transitional package so the transition should be okay
> (although I haven't tested that directly with an apt-upgrade).
> 
> An alternative approach would be for the current source `puppet` server
> to stop building the puppet-agent package, but that seems like a much
> more involved approach. Furthermore, I don't think the work we did on
> the puppetserver 7 package will go into the `puppet` source package
> anyways, so we will have to remove that package at some point anyways.
> 
> If there are no objections within a week, I will file a removal bug with
> the ftp-masters.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> a.

I continue to object in destroying everything at once.

Please, if you want to do something, help finishing the work on jruby as 
discussed in Debconf (ie: keeping the embedded Ruby gems in the source 
code), and we can make a smooth transition.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)