On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:41:08 -0500
=?UTF-8?Q?Louis-Philippe_V=c3=a9ronneau?= wrote:
Package: src:facter
Severity: wishlist
Dear maintainer,
While puppet 6 still supports facter 3.x, I think it wouldn't be a bad
idea to package facter 4.x in the archive.
It seems the current version of puppet in Debian (puppet 5) requires the
3.x version though [1], so we can't just push 4.x to sid.
Considering facter 4.x is a re-write in ruby, I think the best option
would be to create a "facter4" package and keep facter in Debian as
"facter3".
Now that puppet-agent 7.x is in unstable, I don't think keeping facter
3.x is relevant at all. In fact, that version is now deprecated and
unmaintained. So I think it's best to keep the package named "facter" in
version 4 and beyond.
-- Jerome
