[Pkg-puppet-devel] Vendoring core modules in puppet-agent

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2024-02-08 10:45:20, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Vendoring is frowned upon in Debian for a number of (valid) reasons and 
> should IMO be the last option when everything else has failed.
>
> I don't see why these packages shouldn't stay their own packages and be 
> marked a dependencies for puppet-agent if that's the behavior we're 
> looking for, especially since they are separate projects on Github.

I'm not sure we're talking about vendoring the way Debian usually frowns
upon it: those are packages specifically designed, by upstream, to be
managed inside the Puppet agent. They are shipped with the agent in the
upstream package, and I think it would make sense to do so here as well.

A.

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