Homebrew packer package will vanish Sep 27th

[gjasny]

Description

Hello,

while building the Anka macOS VM images I noticed the following output:

    veertu-<sensitive>-vm-clone.template: Installing packer...
    veertu-<sensitive>-vm-clone.template: Downloading packer...
==> veertu-<sensitive>-vm-clone.template: Warning: packer has been deprecated! It will be disabled on 2024-09-27.

This is in line with the deprecation notice on the homebrew site: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/packer. Oneway to replace it would be using hashicorp/tap/packer instead.

Thanks, Gregor

Platforms affected

• [ ] Azure DevOps
• [ ] GitHub Actions - Standard Runners
• [ ] GitHub Actions - Larger Runners

Runner images affected

• [ ] Ubuntu 20.04
• [ ] Ubuntu 22.04
• [ ] Ubuntu 24.04
• [X] macOS 12
• [X] macOS 13
• [X] macOS 13 Arm64
• [X] macOS 14
• [X] macOS 14 Arm64
• [ ] Windows Server 2019
• [ ] Windows Server 2022

Image version and build link

HEAD

Is it regression?

no

Expected behavior

Packer installs w/o warning.

Actual behavior

A warning is emitted.

Repro steps

Build the Anka macOS images.

[sureshe456]

Hi @gjasny We will look in to this issue and keep you updated.

[sureshe456]

Hi @gjasny, Now Packer package is fetching and installing from hashicorp/tap/packer for all macOS images. Since there is no action item pending from our end, Hence we are closing the issue.