From 3c272700b4fb401ab905c060c2ef91eb3123a462 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Meusel Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 14:59:47 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Consider Debian LTS as supported --- _posts/2024-10-01-debian-11.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2024-10-01-debian-11.md diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-01-debian-11.md b/_posts/2024-10-01-debian-11.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..102e642 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-10-01-debian-11.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: Debian LTS support in our modules +date: 2024-10-01 +github_username: bastelfreak +category: changelog +--- + +In the past, Vox Pupuli decided against supporting [Debian LTS timeframes](https://wiki.debian.org/LTS). +This was mostly because our CI resources were quite limited back in the days of Travis CI. +Over the time we got multiple requests from individuals and companies to also support Debian LTS, some of them even willing to sponsor us. +Some of our modules rely on a puppetserver or bolt, for example [puppet-redis][redis]. +We're now in a situation where Perforce fails to deliver packages in time (see [1][1], [2][2], [3][3]). +This now brings us to a situation where normal Debian 11 support is gone, but we cannot add Debian 12 support for some modules because Perforce doesn't provide required packages. +Therefore we consider Debian LTS releases as supported. + +[redis]: https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-redis/blob/master/spec/acceptance/redis_cli_task_spec.rb +[1]: https://github.com/puppetlabs/bolt/issues/3280 +[2]: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetserver/issues/2837 +[3]: https://github.com/puppetlabs/community/discussions/65