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

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2022-03-31 17:05:19, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 3/29/22 21:08, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
>> On 2020-02-02 13:06:42, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>>> FYI, I packaged and uploaded the first 2 so far, but can't push to Git.
>>> Please set me as maintainer or owner, so I can do that.
>>>
>>> Note that I'm doing a git based workflow, packaging upstream tags,
>>> rather than using pristine-tar. If this bothers anyone, please let me
>>> know (but please only complain about the workflow if you really have the
>>> intention to contribute to the packaging, otherwise you're just getting
>>> on my way to be efficient for no reason).
>> 
>> Not sure I'm picking the right message to reply to here, but here we go.
>> 
>> I see that you uploaded 6.16.0-1 to experimental back in December 2020:
>> 
>> https://tracker.debian.org/news/1205795/accepted-puppet-6160-1-source-into-experimental/
>> 
>> Is that package in any shape to ship with bookworm? It would be great to
>> start this transition to get the package down into testing soon...
>
> Uploading it will break current puppet-master. Unless we have a solution 
> to replace it, I don't want to do that...

I understand that, but my perspective is that we *want* to break the
current, 5.5 puppet master. We do *not* want to ship that in
bookworm. So breaking it is acceptable in that sense, to me.

But I guess it's pointless to keep arguing that same point. :)

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