Details
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Task
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Status: Resolved
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Minor
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Resolution: Fixed
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Night's Watch
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NW - 2020-01-22
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Enhancement
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facter --puppet no longer throws a deprecation warning.
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Needs Assessment
Description
Help for facter --puppet states {{Deprecated: use 'puppet facts' instead)}
Except FACT-96 was updated in 2015 with:
We reversed course on the deprecation, at least until puppet facts offers full parity.
puppet facts does not include many facter options (like, but not limited to --no-custom-facts) valuable for debugging, and some users avoid deprecated functionality in principle or policy.
(The Release notes for Facter 3.0 that mentions facter -p has been restored have since aged out of our document tree, because 2015 < 2019.)