Bug#939292: ITP: ruby-pdk -- A CLI to facilitate easy, unified development workflows for Puppet modules
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Gabriel Filion <gabster@lelutin.ca>
* Package name : ruby-pdk
Version : 1.13.0
Upstream Author : Puppet, Inc.
* URL : https://github.com/puppetlabs/pdk
* License : Apache License 2.0
Programming Lang: Ruby
Description : A CLI to facilitate easy, unified development workflows for Puppet modules
The Puppet Development Kit (PDK) includes key Puppet code development and
testing tools for Linux, Windows, and OS X workstations, so you can install
one package with the tools you need to create and validate new modules.
PDK includes testing tools, a complete module skeleton, and command line tools
to help you create, validate, and run tests on Puppet modules. PDK also
includes all dependencies needed for its use.
This package is the very useful helper that's been adopted by the puppet
community to help out building new modules and maintaining them. It also helps
with publishing modules to forge.puppet.com, which is the community module
repository.
Puppet, up to the 5.x branch, has had a builtin command "puppet module build"
that can create a tar archive with the relevant files placed in a layout
that's acceptable for publication on forge.puppet.com. This builtin command
is marked as deprecated in puppet 5.x and was removed in the 6.x branch. This
means that puppet users now need to use pdk for publishing their modules.
pdk also interacts with other tools, some of which are already packaged in
debian, to help users validate the syntax and code style of theire modules but
also to write unit tests.
the upstream project vendors all of those additional tools and the ones that
are not yet packaged yet would need to be packaged separately for debian. This
currently includes the metadata-json-lint and rspec-puppet-facts ruby gems
I plan to maintain this package and the dependencies that I will need to
package additionally within the ruby team.
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