Please update to puppet major version 4

[Hadmut Danisch]

Hi,

the current alpha of xenial 16.04 still comes with a puppet 3.8.4, but the current version of puppet is 4.3. Since 16.04 is supposed to be a LTS release, would be good to have a recent major version.

regards
Hadmut

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting.

I found a corresponding bug in Debian with some discussion around a newer version, so I have attached a bug watch.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

It looks like there are major changes involved in packaging puppet 4, which makes me think that this is unlikely to happen in time for Xenial's release.

In Debian, Stig has invited volunteers with Java packaging experience to help.

[Michael Stahnke (stahnma)]

Puppet 3 will also go end of life from upstream during the support cycle of
16.04, if that helps inform any decisions.
On Jan 20, 2016 08:25, "Robie Basak" <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better.
>
> It looks like there are major changes involved in packaging puppet 4,
> which makes me think that this is unlikely to happen in time for
> Xenial's release.
>
> In Debian, Stig has invited volunteers with Java packaging experience to
> help.
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - puppet outdated
> + Please update to puppet major version 4
>
> ** Changed in: puppet (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Triaged
>
> ** Changed in: puppet (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
>
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> Title:
> Please update to puppet major version 4
>
> Status in puppet package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in puppet package in Debian:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Hi,
>
> the current alpha of xenial 16.04 still comes with a puppet 3.8.4,
> but the current version of puppet is 4.3. Since 16.04 is supposed to
> be a LTS release, would be good to have a recent major version.
>
> regards
> Hadmut
>
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[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Puppet version 4.5.0-4 has been packaged, and is at the moment waiting in yakkety-proposed.

[Mathew Hodson (mhodson)]

This bug was fixed in yakkety

---
puppet (4.5.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Upload puppet 4.5.0-3 to Debian unstable (Closes: #798636)
  * Summary of changes since puppet 3.8.5-2 (last version in unstable):
    * New package names:
      * "puppet" contains the puppet software.
      * "puppet-agent", "puppet-master" and "puppet-master-passenger" starts
        services.
      * "vim-puppet" and "puppet-el" have been removed, and will be repackaged
        from separate sources.
    * activerecord stored configurations is no longer supported
    * etckeeper integration is no longer installed by default

 -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <email address hidden> Sat, 28 May 2016 13:34:25 +0200