On 2020-05-08 18:54:29 +0200 (+0200), Thomas Goirand wrote: [...]
I don't agree with this decision. Debian Buster is still with puppet 5, and puppet 6 hasn't even been uploaded to Unstable yet.
How can I make you change your mind?
My attempt at reading the tea leaves Puppet calls their version support matrix indicates that Puppet 5.x enters "extended support" this month and reaches EOL in November. OpenStack Victoria is scheduled to release in October, so I guess it's a question of whether the Puppet OpenStack team wants the burden of spending a cycle targeting support for a Puppet version which will be EOL the month after the release (especially given deployment projects usually release as much as a month after the coordinated release already). Debian Bullseye will probably have to release with Puppet >= 6, so hopefully it'll be in buster-backports soon after it enters testing, but it would be good to find out from Debian's Puppet package maintainers what their plans are. It looks like Puppet 6.x has been around for over a year now, hopefully it's at least on their radar. -- Jeremy Stanley