[Pkg-puppet-devel] puppet-agent_7.16.0-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into experimental, experimental

[Stig Sandbeck Mathisen]

Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo at debian.org> writes:

> On 2022-05-17 04 h 21, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> 
>> I agree, but shouldn't we have think about it before doing the
>> puppet-agent -> puppet rename?
>
> I'm curious to know when this happened? I've been using puppet in
> Debian since 2011 and I have not witnessed this transition.

The binary package name "puppet-agent" existed in unstable and testing
briefly, I do not remember if it made it into a release, but I don't
think it did.

Reverting from "puppet-agent" to "puppet" was done after someone from
the Puppet company (at that point it was probably Puppet Labs or even
Reductive Labs) contacted the Debian package maintainers.

As far as I remember, the reason was to make it possible to have the
open source puppet packages (using FHS and/etc/puppet) and enterprise
puppet packages (using /opt and /etc/puppetlabs) coexisting on the same
host.

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Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Debian Developer