[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#978663: facter: please package facter 4.x

[Jérôme Charaoui]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:41:08 -0500 
=?UTF-8?Q?Louis-Philippe_V=c3=a9ronneau?= <pollo at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: src:facter
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear maintainer,
> 
> While puppet 6 still supports facter 3.x, I think it wouldn't be a bad
> idea to package facter 4.x in the archive.
> 
> It seems the current version of puppet in Debian (puppet 5) requires the
> 3.x version though [1], so we can't just push 4.x to sid.
> 
> Considering facter 4.x is a re-write in ruby, I think the best option
> would be to create a "facter4" package and keep facter in Debian as
> "facter3".

Now that puppet-agent 7.x is in unstable, I don't think keeping facter 
3.x is relevant at all. In fact, that version is now deprecated and 
unmaintained. So I think it's best to keep the package named "facter" in 
version 4 and beyond.

-- Jerome