[Pkg-puppet-devel] The shape of Puppetserver 7 packaging in Bookworm

[Thomas Goirand]

Dear release team,

The puppet team invested a lot of time to package puppetserver 7. This 
included:
- packaging all clojure packages
- fixing jruby
- packaging all puppet-modules that are "core"
- packaging puppetserver itself

At this time, we do have a puppetserver that works and is up-to-shape, 
and it is probably the opinion of the team members that it should be 
part of Bookworm.

It is my feeling that probably, we will need further update as we 
discover issues, and probably, we will need updates during the freeze. 
There's sill currently some autopkgtest not working on arch not amd64 or 
arm64 for example.

However, it would be *very* frustrating for the team if we don't reach 
our goal to have pupptserver 7 in Bookworm, and it probably would also 
be a shame for Debian users if, for the first time in a long history of 
Debian release, we didn't have puppet included in Debian.

May I ask (in advance) to the release team, to have a relaxed policy for 
puppetserver related packages during the freeze, and allow us a little 
bit more time to fix what's remaining? We're nearly there, and I believe 
that by the end of next month, every piece of the puzzle will be in 
place, including a nice upgrade path from Bullseye.

At the same time, and that concerns *me* for OpenStack packages: I had 
no way to check if openstack-cluster-installer worked well before 
puppetserver is in. I'll be doing the checks "soon", but that's a bit 
late as well in the development process. I do expect that I'll have some 
puppet manifest last-minute modifications to be done. I do expect these 
type of change to be "not small"...

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)