Bug#968037: buster-pu: package facter/3.11.0-2+deb10u1
Control: tags -1 + confirmed
On Sun, 2020-08-16 at 10:54 +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 05:45:51PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2020-08-07 at 10:46 +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> > > if you run facter in the context of Googles GCE it will fetch
> > > information from Googles metadata service, but form an old
> > > beta API endpoint. This one is due to get shutdown by the
> > > end of September 2020.
> > > https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/migrating-to-v1-metadata-server
> >
> > Do we have an idea of how widely used this particular combination
> > is?
>
> TBH no idea. We use it in combination with ansible on GCE VMs.
[...]
> > The reason I ask is that, even if we pull the 10.6 point release
> > back in line with where it would have been if 10.5 hadn't been
> > delayed for the Grub issues, that would still be during the second
> > half of September and quite close to the shutdown date.
>
> Well our internal ticket about Google urging us to move away from the
> old API endpoint was lingering for several weeks. I guess they also
> pinged other customers and nobody cared enough to investigate it or
> at least report a bug in the bts. So probably that issue is less
> important/urgen than I initially thought. None the less I still
> believe it's sensible to fix it in a forthcoming point release,
> whenever that will be.
Thanks. Please feel free to upload.
Regards,
Adam
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