Jira (PUP-2746) new parameter "allow_virtual"

[Josh Cooper (JIRA)]

Title: Message Title

Josh Cooper commented on an issue   Re: new parameter "allow_virtual" Curtis Ruck Just so you know, we really are trying to do the right thing here. I know it probably doesn't seem that way, but we want to make sure users are aware of breaking changes that will be occurring Puppet 4, and remediate those issues before Puppet 4 lands. It would of been much nicer if you had added the default allow_virtual=>false to maintain existing functionality, since according to semantic versioning you can add features but not break existing environments. That's fair. We wanted it to default to true in 4.0. If we explicitly set the default to false in 3.x, then we wouldn't be able to issue a deprecation warning. Thank you for successfully introducing non-backwards compatible changes into your stable releases. Watch the tone please, that wasn't our intent. We didn't realize that setting allow_virtual as a resource default would require the master and all agents to be upgraded to 3.6.1. In 3.6.2, you can set --disable-warnings=deprecations. If you want to run a single run with deprecations enabled, you can do: puppet agent -t --disable_warnings='' Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-2746 new parameter "allow_virtual" So, this whole "allow_virtual" new parameter has been extremely frustrating. We use puppet to manage package updates, i.e. package{'puppet': ensure=>latest} Therefore, we added Package{allow_virtual=>false} in order to remove the extraneous warning, of which because its in RED, our customers think something broke. Then, since not all of the pup... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.