Hello, Core of this Debian bug tracking system update is https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/27378#issuecomment-1251244275
----- Forwarded message from Martin Atkins <notificati...@github.com> ----- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 09:20:23 -0700 From: Martin Atkins <notificati...@github.com> To: hashicorp/terraform <terraf...@noreply.github.com> Cc: Geert Stappers <stapp...@stappers.it>, Comment <comm...@noreply.github.com> Subject: Re: [hashicorp/terraform] Publish arm64 Terraform packages in the HashiCorp "apt" repository (Debian/Ubuntu packages) (#27378) It seems that this Debian RFP originally started in 2015 while Terraform v0.6 was the current version, and consequently it got bogged down in the fact that Terraform v0.6 still had all of the HashiCorp-distributed providers directly in the main distribution and therefore the package would need to depend on the union of all dependencies of all of the providers. Thankfully that hasn't been true since Terraform v0.10, and also with Terraform v1.0 establishing [the v1.x compatibility promises](https://www.terraform.io/language/v1-compatibility-promises) the rate of change to Terraform is slower now and so probably a more appropriate speed for Debian's process such that the version available in Debian Stable is likely to remain useful for longer than Terraform v0.6 would've. With all of that said: we unfortunately don't have the resources to participate directly in the packaging processes for Debian and other distributions. While we certainly would not object to Terraform being packaged in Debian (nor should we!), I think it would be necessary for someone in the Debian developer community to manage that particular packaging. In particular, I don't think our methodology for building APT packages would be acceptable for the main Debian repository: we take literally the `terraform` executable from the official `.zip` packages and copy it into a Debian binary package, whereas the main Debian repository must always be buildable from source code. That is technically possible to do but not how our own in-house packaging processes are built. -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/27378#issuecomment-1251244275 You are receiving this because you commented. Message ID: <hashicorp/terraform/issues/27378/1251244...@github.com> ----- End forwarded message ----- I triggered that response with https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/27378#issuecomment-1251224003 which boils down to "cross reference link to Debian BTS issue, have Terraform in Debian means have it available for release architectures" -- Silence is hard to parse
