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

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2022-05-30 09:40:41, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
> 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.

It would seem worthwhile to try to contact upstream in this case
anyways, anyone has some sort of privileged contact? Otherwise I'll
start making headway there.

>> 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.

Got it, thanks for digging!

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