[Pkg-puppet-devel] Razor packages in debian?

[micah]

Hi Tom,

Thomas Bechtold <thomasbechtold at jpberlin.de> writes:

> Hi Stig,
>
> On 08/17/2013 11:20 AM, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
>> Thomas Bechtold <thomasbechtold at jpberlin.de> writes:
>> 
>>> there's a subproject of puppetlabs on github called Razor[1] which can
>>> be used to provision bare metal hardware (with pxe/dhcp/tftp).
>> 
>> Yes, Razor looks like very good stuff. :)
>> 
>>> Packages from upstream are available[2].
>>>
>>> My question is if someone already started to package this software for
>>> Debian or are there any known problems for packaging (dependencies,
>>> license,..)? I haven't found a ITP/RFP on bugs.debian.org.
>> 
>> I'm not aware of any packaging effort, or of any known problems which
>> prevents packaging.
>> 
>> As far as I can see, they've released it under the Apache 2.0 license
>> (https://github.com/puppetlabs/Razor/blob/master/LICENSE), so that
>> should be good as far as DFSG is concerned.
>> 
>> I haven't looked too closely at the dependencies of Razor.
>> 
>
> Great. Then i'll fill a RFP (and maybe start to package it based on the
> upstream work).
> What package name do you suggest? Should we go with puppet-razor (as
> upstream) ?
> Ang what about the packaging repository? I guess it could be inside of
> pkg-puppet on alioth? If not I would start on collab-maint. Opinions?

My understanding from the README on the github page is that there is a
total re-write of Razor in progress right now, with the aim of finishing
it by the end of this month.

That makes me wonder if it might be better to wait to see what happens
there before spending too much time with the packaging? Not that I want
to discourage you in any way!

About the packaging repository, I'd say it is up to you - it could fit
nicely in the pkg-puppet suite and I'm sure everyone would be happy to
have you, but it might be generic enough and not puppet-specific enough
that collab-maint could be a good home too. So I guess I'm indifferent
about what is best, but wanted to let you know that I think it would be
fine to put it in the pkg-puppet alioth project if you decided it made
sense.

micah
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