I'm currently working on making a package for this, from upstream's
good work, so this might actually be solved in bookworm.

howto/cumin.md

@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ documented.
 
 ## Installation
 
+### Virtualenv / pip
+
+If Cumin is not available from your normal packages (see [bug 924685][]
+for Debian), you must install it in a [Python virtualenv][].
+
+[bug 924685]: https://bugs.debian.org/924685
+
 First, install dependencies, Cumin and some patches:
 
     sudo apt install python3-colorama python3-clustershell python3-pyparsing python3-requests python3-tqdm python3-yaml python3-tqdm
@@ -24,9 +31,6 @@ First, install dependencies, Cumin and some patches:
     ~/.virtualenvs/cumin/bin/pip3 install cumin
     ~/.virtualenvs/cumin/bin/pip3 uninstall tqdm pyparsing clustershell # force using trusted system packages
 
-Notice how Cumin is installed in a [Python virtualenv][]: it is not
-yet [in Debian][].
-
 Then drop the following configuration in
 `~/.config/cumin/config.yaml`:
 
@@ -75,7 +79,6 @@ and will simply show which hosts match the request:
 
 [root check]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218440
 [this bug report]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218441
-[in Debian]: https://bugs.debian.org/924685
 [Python virtualenv]: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/
 [briefly described in the Wikimedia docs]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cumin#PuppetDB_host_selection
 [parallel-ssh]: https://code.google.com/archive/p/parallel-ssh/