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

[Stig Sandbeck Mathisen]

On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 09:59:55AM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> Are we still in touch with those folks?

I do not think so. Even before "puppetserver" was being packaged, I had not
heard from Puppet upstream regarding the OSS packaging in a long while.  I
suspect there has been a good amount of staff turnover since then. I've not
seen any on the packaging list, however there may be direct contact between
people.

> What's the name of the upstream package?

The upstream binary package was "puppet-agent", which contains the puppet
agent, pxp agent and full stack of ruby runtime required.

To inspect the current upstream package:

    cd $(mktemp -d)
    curl -O http://apt.puppet.com/pool/bullseye/puppet7/p/puppet-agent/puppet-agent_7.16.0-1bullseye_amd64.deb
    dpkg-deb --info puppet-agent_7.16.0-1bullseye_amd64.deb
    dpkg-deb --contents puppet-agent_7.16.0-1bullseye_amd64.deb

The upstream binary package "puppet-agent" now provides "hiera", "puppet" and
"puppet-common", so they are not trying to coexist with Debitn puppet
packaging.  I do not think we would gain much by not renaming the package to
"puppet-agent" if we wanted to.

-- 
Stig