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On 5/10/20 12:56 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 5/9/20 8:52 PM, Tobias Urdin wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I don't agree, we should continue on the chosen path of not supporting Puppet 5
>> in the Victoria release.
>>
>> We've had Puppet 6 support since I introduced the testing for it in 2018 back then we ran
>> Puppet 5 and Puppet 6 on every commit until we deemed it pretty redundant and moved
>> Puppet 6 jobs to experimental while keeping the Puppet 6 syntax and unit jobs.
>>
>> We've never claimed that Puppet OpenStack is going to support downstream OS repackaging of
>> Puppet, even though RDO/TripleO does the same we've always tested Puppet with upstream
>> versions for our testing, only Debian has skipped that and testing with downstream packages.
> 
> I don't understand why you insist that we shouldn't use downstream
> distribution packages. I haven't heard that the project claimed that we
> are "support[ing] downstream OS repackaging of Puppet", but I haven't
> heard that we aren't either, or even any preference in this regard. This
> I miss this information somewhere? Did someone even write this
> somewhere? Or is this only your own view?
> 
> One thing is that the Debian packages for Puppet are of better quality
> than the upstream ones in many ways. There's also the problem that
> adding an external artifact is *not* what my project is about (see below).

One more thing: puppetlabs is only providing packages for the current
stable distribution of Debian (whatever that is), never for testing or
sid, and that's a perfectly valid environment where I sometimes test
deployments. So if we get incompatible with Puppet 5, this also break
this use case, currently.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)