Merge pull request #386 from bastelfreak/ol7

Consider Debian LTS as supported

_posts/2024-10-01-debian-11.md

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+layout: post
+title: Debian LTS support in our modules
+date: 2024-10-01
+github_username: bastelfreak
+category: changelog
+---
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+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