[DRE-maint] Bug#1049999: vagrant: the future of packaging vagrant in Debian

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 01:46:11AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Fri, 2023-08-18 at 08:07:44 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> > FWIW, I have been maintaining vagrant in Debian for several years.
> 
> BTW, thank you for having done that, it's been much appreciated!
> 
> > TL;DR: I will not be maintaining vagrant anymore.
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 02:56:28PM +0900, Kentaro HAYASHI wrote:
> > > * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
> > > Plan A.
> […]
> 
> > > Plan B.
> […]
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 09:37:54AM +0000, Gwili.Stifter at EasyMailer.live wrote:
> > > Plan C.
> […]
> 
> There's perhaps a:
> 
> Plan D.
> 
> - Package Vagrunt (https://github.com/vaagrunt/vagrunt) a fork of
>   Vagrant, that is stated should remain free software. And as it does
>   not have a CLA, if it gets several contributions it will be
>   increasingly hard to relicense.
> - Transition from vagrant to vagrunt via a transitional package.
> 
> (We use Vagrant at work, and I'm not planning on relying on a non-free
> tool, so a fork would do, otherwise I'd have to look into alternatives
> for us to switch to.)

I have seen this a couple of days ago.

So far vagrunt is vaporware. The GitHub user which created has -- as far
as I looked, i.e. on GitHub itself -- 0 contributions to Ruby projects.
I'm also not confident that it will be easy to keep up with e.g. new
VirtualBox versions without effectively infringing on HashiCorp
copyrights.

I will love to be proven wrong, but I'm not holding my breath here.
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