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#808940 RFP: terraform -- tool for managing cloud infrastructure #808940

Package:: wnpp

Source:: wnpp

Submitter:: Daniel Stender

Date:: 2026-05-30 15:37:02 UTC

Severity:: wishlist

Blocked By:

Bug	Title
821265 0	RFP: golang-github-pearkes-mailgun -- Go library for using Mailgun (email service) wishlist stable testing unstable about 10 years ago
821198 0	RFP: golang-github-jen20-riviera -- Azure Resource Manager SDK library for Go wishlist stable testing unstable about 10 years ago
821206 0	RFP: golang-github-lusis-go-artifactory -- Go library and utilities to interact with Artifactory wishlist stable testing unstable about 10 years ago

#808940#5

Date:: 2015-12-24 13:08:40 UTC

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* Package name    : terraform
  Version         : 0.6.8
  Upstream Author : Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com>
* URL             : https://terraform.io/
* License         : MPL-2.0
  Programming Lang: Go
  Description     : tool for managing cloud infrastructure

Terraform is a tool for launching complex infrastructure like from cloud providers
like AWS or DigitlOcean. Like the other tools from HashiCorp (Vagrant, Packer etc.)
a simple CLI based program which is very easy to use, employing configuration files
for the needed setups. For more info, please see the documentation and quick intro
on the site.

I'm going to maintain this within the pkg-group. The binary is going to carry the same
name.

And, this is requirement for packaging Otto (see the block for ITP bug).

Thanks,
DS

P.S. Merry christmas to everyone who celebrates.

#808940#12

Date:: 2016-03-23 23:45:08 UTC

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Alive!

#808940#81

Date:: 2016-05-16 08:59:29 UTC

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* Visit https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=808940 which is the ITP of Terraform.
* Package one of its dependencies.


Groeten
Geert Stappers

Footnotes:
[0] Thanks for telling about https://www.terraform.io/  Infrastructure as code
    Terraform provides a common configuration to launch infrastructure - from
    physical and virtual servers to email and DNS providers
[1] The next two lines might be harsh. So be it.
[2] The offering of help is seen. Don't expect getting tasks assigned. Find tasks
    that you can do. Report actual progress. When stuck, follow the guidelines
    described in http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

#808940#90

Date:: 2017-04-30 11:21:39 UTC

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Hi,

Initial message in this report speaks about  "pkg-group".
However on Alioth I can't find pkg-group.

Where is pkg-group?



Something completely different:
The list of blocking RFP bugreports scares me.
I think not all are needed to get a working Terraform.


Groeten
Geert Stappers


P.S.
Otto is gone as blocking dependency
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802805#28

#808940#95

Date:: 2022-06-17 10:10:57 UTC

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That dependency list doesn't look so scary any more, but maybe it has
changed significantly since the last update to the bug report.

Is someone still working on this?

While upstream provides their own Debian package servers[1], it would be
better to have Terraform in Debian.

[1] https://www.terraform.io/downloads

#808940#100

Date:: 2022-09-19 16:45:59 UTC

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Hello,

Core of this Debian bug tracking system update
is https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/27378#issuecomment-1251244275
----- Forwarded message from Martin Atkins <notifications@github.com> -----

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 09:20:23 -0700
From: Martin Atkins <notifications@github.com>
To: hashicorp/terraform <terraform@noreply.github.com>
Cc: Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.it>, Comment <comment@noreply.github.com>
Subject: Re: [hashicorp/terraform] Publish arm64 Terraform packages in the HashiCorp "apt" repository (Debian/Ubuntu packages) (#27378)

It seems that this Debian RFP originally started in 2015 while Terraform
v0.6 was the current version, and consequently it got bogged down in
the fact that Terraform v0.6 still had all of the HashiCorp-distributed
providers directly in the main distribution and therefore the package
would need to depend on the union of all dependencies of all of the
providers.

Thankfully that hasn't been true since Terraform v0.10, and
also with Terraform v1.0 establishing [the v1.x compatibility
promises](https://www.terraform.io/language/v1-compatibility-promises)
the rate of change to Terraform is slower now and so probably a more
appropriate speed for Debian's process such that the version available
in Debian Stable is likely to remain useful for longer than Terraform
v0.6 would've.

With all of that said: we unfortunately don't have the resources to
participate directly in the packaging processes for Debian and other
distributions. While we certainly would not object to Terraform being
packaged in Debian (nor should we!), I think it would be necessary for
someone in the Debian developer community to manage that particular
packaging. In particular, I don't think our methodology for building
APT packages would be acceptable for the main Debian repository: we take
literally the `terraform` executable from the official `.zip` packages and
copy it into a Debian binary package, whereas the main Debian repository
must always be buildable from source code. That is technically possible
to do but not how our own in-house packaging processes are built.

----- End forwarded message -----

I triggered that response
with https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/27378#issuecomment-1251224003
which boils down to "cross reference link to Debian BTS issue,
have Terraform in Debian means have it available for release
architectures"

#808940#105

Date:: 2022-09-19 19:48:04 UTC

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Hi,


Here my summary and notes on https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/main/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#terraform-clicore-development-environment

Having `git` and `golang-go` installed.
Have "hello world" for go compiled and run, so you know that it works.

Copy and paste this in your command line terminal:


git clone https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform.git
cd terraform/
go install .
ls -lh $(go env GOPATH)/bin/terraform
$(go env GOPATH)/bin/terraform version


This what you can expect as output

stappers@myhost:/usr/src/github
$ git clone https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform.git
Cloning into 'terraform'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 264828, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (244/244), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (146/146), done.
remote: Total 264828 (delta 139), reused 174 (delta 94), pack-reused 264584
Receiving objects: 100% (264828/264828), 231.55 MiB | 1.74 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (164863/164863), done.
stappers@myhost:/usr/src/github
$ cd terraform/
stappers@myhost:/usr/src/github/terraform
$ go install .
       most likely several lines of "downloading something"
       and no additional output
stappers@myhost:/usr/src/github/terraform
$ ls -lh $(go env GOPATH)/bin/terraform
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gs0604 gs0604 82M 19 sep 20:49 /home/stappers/go/bin/terraform
stappers@myhost:/usr/src/github/terraform
$ $(go env GOPATH)/bin/terraform version
Terraform v1.3.0-dev
on linux_amd64
stappers@myhost:/usr/src/github/terraform
$


What me did surprise, was how quick / fast the compile is
after the download. I was wondering "Already now a succesfull build?"
In doubt I did another `go install .` which was immediatly finished.
Yes, that build went again fast.

To get the executable "installed" I did:


   sudo ln -s /home/stappers/go/bin/terraform /usr/bin/


That symlink will help to be up to date with what is build.



Groeten
Geert Stappers

#808940#110

Date:: 2023-10-26 11:03:24 UTC

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retitle 808940 ITP: opentofu -- tool for managing cloud infrastructure
thanks

On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 14:08:40 +0100 Daniel Stender  <debian@danielstender.com> wrote:

Hello,

 > * Package name : terraform
 > Version : 0.6.8
 > Upstream Author : Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com>
 > * URL : https://terraform.io/
 > * License : MPL-2.0
 > Programming Lang: Go
 > Description : tool for managing cloud infrastructure
 >
 > Terraform is a tool for launching complex infrastructure like from
cloud providers
 > like AWS or DigitlOcean. Like the other tools from HashiCorp
(Vagrant, Packer etc.)
 > a simple CLI based program which is very easy to use, employing
configuration files
 > for the needed setups. For more info, please see the documentation
and quick intro
 > on the site.
 >

Now that hashicorp has changed the licence of their software BSL, I
guess that this RFP should be changed to package opentofu instead?

https://opentofu.org/

#808940#117

Date:: 2023-11-13 16:22:53 UTC

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On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 13:03:24 +0200 Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org> wrote:


Hello,

I am one of the core maintainers of OpenTofu, happy to lend any assistance
in packaging.

I will note that we are currently only at the alpha stage and are hard at
work progressing to a stable release.

Christian Mesh

#808940#128

Date:: 2024-01-12 15:30:37 UTC

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Hi,

We have released the first stable version, 1.6.0.  Let me know if there's
anything I can do to help with packaging!

Christian

#808940#133

Date:: 2025-05-22 20:20:42 UTC

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I did a quick survey of the dependency state for opentofu 1.9.1.

Missing packages:

github.com/aliyun/alibaba-cloud-sdk-go v1.61.1501
github.com/aliyun/aliyun-tablestore-go-sdk v4.1.2+incompatible
github.com/hashicorp/aws-sdk-go-base/v2 v2.0.0-beta.43
github.com/hashicorp/consul/api v1.13.0
github.com/hashicorp/consul/sdk v0.8.0
github.com/hashicorp/copywrite v0.16.3
github.com/hashicorp/go-getter v1.7.5
github.com/hashicorp/go-tfe v1.36.0
github.com/hashicorp/jsonapi v0.0.0-20210826224640-ee7dae0fb22d
github.com/manicminer/hamilton v0.44.0
github.com/mitchellh/gox v1.0.1
github.com/nishanths/exhaustive v0.7.11
github.com/openbao/openbao/api v0.0.0-20240326035453-c075f0ef2c7e
github.com/opentofu/registry-address v0.0.0-20230920144404-f1e51167f633
github.com/tencentcloud/tencentcloud-sdk-go/tencentcloud/common v1.0.588
github.com/tencentcloud/tencentcloud-sdk-go/tencentcloud/sts v1.0.588
github.com/tencentcloud/tencentcloud-sdk-go/tencentcloud/tag v1.0.233
github.com/tencentyun/cos-go-sdk-v5 v0.7.29
github.com/opentofu/hcl/v2 v2.0.0-20240814143621-8048794c5c52

Outdated packages:

golang-google-cloud-dev cloud.google.com/go/kms v1.15.5
golang-google-cloud-dev cloud.google.com/go/storage v1.36.0
golang-github-aliyun-aliyun-oss-go-sdk-dev github.com/aliyun/aliyun-oss-go-sdk v2.2.9+incompatible
golang-github-aws-aws-sdk-go-v2-dev github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/s3 v1.46.0
golang-github-chzyer-readline-dev github.com/chzyer/readline v1.5.1
golang-github-dylanmei-winrmtest-dev github.com/dylanmei/winrmtest v0.0.0-20210303004826-fbc9ae56efb6
golang-github-hashicorp-go-azure-helpers-dev github.com/hashicorp/go-azure-helpers v0.43.0
golang-github-hashicorp-go-hclog-dev github.com/hashicorp/go-hclog v1.6.3
golang-github-hashicorp-go-plugin-dev github.com/hashicorp/go-plugin v1.4.3
golang-github-hashicorp-go-retryablehttp-dev github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp v0.7.7
golang-github-hashicorp-hcl-v2-dev github.com/hashicorp/hcl/v2 v2.20.1
golang-github-mitchellh-cli-dev github.com/mitchellh/cli v1.1.5
golang-github-mitchellh-colorstring-dev github.com/mitchellh/colorstring v0.0.0-20190213212951-d06e56a500db
golang-github-mitchellh-reflectwalk-dev github.com/mitchellh/reflectwalk v1.0.2
golang-github-zclconf-go-cty-dev github.com/zclconf/go-cty v1.14.4
golang-github-zclconf-go-cty-debug-dev github.com/zclconf/go-cty-debug v0.0.0-20240509010212-0d6042c53940
golang-github-zclconf-go-cty-yaml-dev github.com/zclconf/go-cty-yaml v1.1.0
golang-golang-x-crypto-dev golang.org/x/crypto v0.31.0
golang-golang-x-net-dev golang.org/x/net v0.33.0
golang-golang-x-sys-dev golang.org/x/sys v0.28.0
golang-golang-x-term-dev golang.org/x/term v0.27.0
golang-google-api-dev google.golang.org/api v0.155.0
golang-google-genproto-dev google.golang.org/genproto v0.0.0-20240123012728-ef4313101c80

On the plus side, these packages no longer seem to be a dependency:

#821198 (golang-github-jen20-riviera)
#821206 (golang-github-lusis-go-artifactory)
#821265 (golang-github-pearkes-mailgun)

So there's definitely more work to do.

#808940#138

Date:: 2025-05-30 13:31:29 UTC

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Looks like dh-make-golang can actually parse this package, a treat!
Here's what it thinks of the above list, complete with extra leaf
dependencies:

2025/05/30 09:24:08 Bringing github.com/opentofu/opentofu to Debian requires packaging the following Go modules:
github.com/opentofu/opentofu
  github.com/aliyun/alibaba-cloud-sdk-go
  github.com/aliyun/aliyun-tablestore-go-sdk
  github.com/bmatcuk/doublestar/v4	(github.com/bmatcuk/doublestar in Debian)
  github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/v2	(github.com/go-viper/mapstructure in Debian)
  github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2	(github.com/googleapis/gax-go in Debian)
  github.com/hashicorp/aws-sdk-go-base/v2
    github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-log
  github.com/hashicorp/copywrite
    github.com/AlecAivazis/survey/v2	(github.com/AlecAivazis/survey in Debian)
    github.com/bmatcuk/doublestar/v4 (2)
    github.com/bradleyfalzon/ghinstallation/v2
      github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4	(github.com/golang-jwt/jwt in Debian)
      github.com/google/go-github/v45	(github.com/google/go-github in Debian)
    github.com/jedib0t/go-pretty/v6	(github.com/jedib0t/go-pretty in Debian)
    github.com/mergestat/timediff
    github.com/thanhpk/randstr
    github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4 (2)
    github.com/google/go-github/v45 (2)
  github.com/hashicorp/jsonapi
  github.com/manicminer/hamilton
  github.com/mitchellh/gox
  github.com/nishanths/exhaustive
  github.com/openbao/openbao/api
    github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v3	(github.com/cenkalti/backoff in Debian)
    github.com/hashicorp/go-secure-stdlib/parseutil
      github.com/hashicorp/go-secure-stdlib/strutil
    github.com/hashicorp/go-secure-stdlib/strutil (2)
  github.com/opentofu/registry-address
  github.com/tencentcloud/tencentcloud-sdk-go/tencentcloud/common
  github.com/tencentcloud/tencentcloud-sdk-go/tencentcloud/sts
    github.com/tencentcloud/tencentcloud-sdk-go/tencentcloud/common (2)
  github.com/tencentcloud/tencentcloud-sdk-go/tencentcloud/tag
  github.com/tencentyun/cos-go-sdk-v5
    github.com/QcloudApi/qcloud_sign_golang
    github.com/tencentcloud/tencentcloud-sdk-go/tencentcloud/common (3)
    github.com/tencentcloud/tencentcloud-sdk-go/tencentcloud/kms
  github.com/AlecAivazis/survey/v2 (2)
  github.com/Masterminds/semver/v3	(github.com/Masterminds/semver in Debian)
  github.com/Masterminds/sprig/v3	(github.com/Masterminds/sprig in Debian)
    github.com/Masterminds/semver/v3 (2)
  github.com/Microsoft/go-winio
  github.com/apparentlymart/go-textseg/v15	(github.com/apparentlymart/go-textseg in Debian)
  github.com/bradleyfalzon/ghinstallation/v2 (2)
    github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4 (3)
    github.com/google/go-github/v45 (3)
  github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v3 (2)
  github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4	(github.com/cenkalti/backoff in Debian)
  github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4 (4)
  github.com/google/go-github/v45 (4)
  github.com/hashicorp/go-secure-stdlib/parseutil (2)
    github.com/hashicorp/go-secure-stdlib/strutil (3)
  github.com/hashicorp/go-secure-stdlib/strutil (4)
  github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-log (2)
  github.com/jedib0t/go-pretty/v6 (2)
  github.com/manicminer/hamilton-autorest
    github.com/manicminer/hamilton (2)
  github.com/mergestat/timediff (2)
  github.com/thanhpk/randstr (2)
  k8s.io/klog/v2	(k8s.io/klog in Debian)
  sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v4	(sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff in Debian)

... it tends to be a little too noisy though, as it duplicates entries
and includes some dependencies packaged in Debian. Here's a cleaned up
list:

  github.com/aliyun/alibaba-cloud-sdk-go
  github.com/aliyun/aliyun-tablestore-go-sdk
  github.com/hashicorp/aws-sdk-go-base/v2
    github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-log
  github.com/hashicorp/copywrite
    github.com/bmatcuk/doublestar/v4 (2)
    github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4 (2)
    github.com/google/go-github/v45 (2)
  github.com/hashicorp/jsonapi
  github.com/manicminer/hamilton
  github.com/mitchellh/gox
  github.com/nishanths/exhaustive
  github.com/openbao/openbao/api
  github.com/opentofu/registry-address
  github.com/tencentcloud/tencentcloud-sdk-go/tencentcloud/common
  github.com/tencentcloud/tencentcloud-sdk-go/tencentcloud/sts
  github.com/tencentcloud/tencentcloud-sdk-go/tencentcloud/tag
  github.com/tencentyun/cos-go-sdk-v5
    github.com/QcloudApi/qcloud_sign_golang
    github.com/tencentcloud/tencentcloud-sdk-go/tencentcloud/kms
  github.com/AlecAivazis/survey/v2 (2)
    github.com/Masterminds/semver/v3 (2)
  github.com/Microsoft/go-winio
  github.com/bradleyfalzon/ghinstallation/v2 (2)
  github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v3 (2)
  github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4 (4)
  github.com/google/go-github/v45 (4)
  github.com/hashicorp/go-secure-stdlib/parseutil (2)
  github.com/hashicorp/go-secure-stdlib/strutil (4)
  github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-log (2)
  github.com/jedib0t/go-pretty/v6 (2)
  github.com/manicminer/hamilton-autorest
    github.com/manicminer/hamilton (2)
  github.com/mergestat/timediff (2)
  github.com/thanhpk/randstr (2)

35 packages, compared to your 19 package list. It might have missed
already packaged stuff maybe?

I wonder if some stuff in there could be made optional, like
tencentcloud or alibaba might be just for those cloud providers?

In any case, it would be really nice to have opentofu in Debian!

#808940#145

Date:: 2026-05-30 15:34:59 UTC

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Did a quick review of the dependencies that are not available in Debian
for version 1.12.1.

The following packages are missing, according to dh-make-golang:

github.com/opentofu/svchost
github.com/tencentcloud/tencentcloud-sdk-go
github.com/hashicorp/aws-sdk-go-base
github.com/aliyun/alibaba-cloud-sdk-go
github.com/aliyun/aliyun-tablestore-go-sdk
github.com/hashicorp/jsonapi
github.com/openbao/openbao
github.com/opentofu/registry-address
github.com/tencentyun/cos-go-sdk-v5
github.com/apparentlymart/go-workgraph

I can support the packaging effort, if any help is needed

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