The old "puppet-master" and "puppet-master-passenger" were basically
just configuration files for the systemd/sysvinit and Apache2/Passenger,
because the main (ruby) code was always in the "puppet" package.
I think the way forward here is that first, we should make the 7.x
transitional dummy package "puppet" "Breaks: puppet-master,
puppet-master-passenger", to make clear that the old master packages
cannot function with the libraries shipping in the latest puppet-agent
package.
And secondly, we should carefully consider whether a "seamless"
transition is even possible at all. Puppetserver is completely different
software which is configured differently than the old master, and as
such I doubt that one can simple replace one package with the other and
expect things to "just work". Even if it does, important bits of the
configuration may likely be lost in translation (eg. auth.conf).
So considering all this I'm currently leaning towards adding a
transitional "puppet-master" and/or "puppet-master-passenger" package
for the purpose of shipping a NEWS file recommending that users migrate
to the puppetserver package manually.
-- Jérôme
