Control: retitle -1 puppet: Hiera 5 is now built-in, please drop hiera 3 dependency Control: tags -1 wontfix
Hi, On 07:32 Wed 14 Mar , Gabriel Filion wrote: > I'm just curious whether the package's dependency on the hiera package > is still needed. hiera 3.x (as distributed by the hiera package) is > still maintained but I'm wondering if we require it with newer puppet > installs. It appears it's still necessary, at least in order to provide backward compatibility. Puppet itself declares it as a runtime dependency in its gemspec, so I guess it's not that easy to get rid of it (thus marking it as `wontfix' for the time being). > I haven't made any sort of test yet. I guess to test this, we'd need a > puppet package without the dependency on hiera installed on a host > without hiera, then check that lookups are still working regardless of > the tool's absence. > > If tests are successful then I believe we could simply drop the > dependency to hiera from the puppet package. You can always force-remove ruby-hiera: dpkg --ignore-depends=puppet --remove hiera and see what's working or not :) Regards, Apollon
