[Pkg-puppet-devel] naming of the puppet (agent) package

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2022-05-23 09:46:26, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
> 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.

Oh, that's interesting.

Are we still in touch with those folks?

What's the name of the upstream package?

Why on earth would you want to run both packages in parallel on the same
host? :)

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