[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#966288: Bug#966288: mcollective - RM for bullseye?

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: severity -1 serious
Control: reassign -2 ftp.debian.org
Control: retitle -2 RM: mcollective -- ROQA; dead upstream, alternatives exist
Control: tags -2 = moreinfo

On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 12:21:57PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote:
> The last mcollective release was v.3.1.2 tagged on Oct 14, 2018, and zero
> commits after that, so is effectively dead upstream.
> 
> Here are the popcon stats
>   https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=mcollective
> 
> I think it could probably be removed from debian now.
> 
> This bug mentioned "bolt" as a possible replacement, that seems to be this:
>   https://www.puppet.com/docs/bolt/latest/bolt.html

I've cloned this bug to request RM for trixie. While bolt is not
packaged in Debian, it seems mcollective has no users and whoever
was running it has very likely replaced it by now with something
else. I know a number of sites now using Puppet + ansible instead
of Puppet + mcollective.

AFAIK the old mcollective doesn't work with current Puppet, but I
haven't looked since 2018 either :-)

Chris