Package: puppet
Version: 5.5.10-4
Severity: important
Hi Maintainers,
In early 2015, upstream Puppet changed the location of several core config
files and directories with the release of Puppet 4.0. Today, almost 5 years
later, a default install of Puppet 5.5 on Debian 10 still uses those old config
file and directory locations.
For example, per Debian's Puppet man page[1], the upstream Puppet docs[2], and
innumerable web search results, the default config directory ("confdir") for
Puppet should be /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/, but in Puppet 5.5.10-4 on Debian 10,
it's still /etc/puppet/.
Similar issues exist for all other config file and directory locations changed
in Puppet 4.0[3].
Although not package-breaking, inconsistencies like these present usability
problems for those coming from other distributions or for those who were
previously using Puppet's official open source packages.
Could a Maintainer update the Debian Puppet package so that Puppet's behavior
on Debian matches the documented behavior in the man pages, upstream docs, and
upstream packages?
[1] https://manpages.debian.org/buster/puppet/puppet.conf.5.en.html
[2] https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/5.5/dirs_confdir.html
[3] https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/5.5/whered_it_go.html
Thank you,
Todd H. Poole
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages puppet depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii facter 3.11.0-2+deb10u1
ii hiera 3.2.0-2
ii init-system-helpers 1.56+nmu1
ii lsb-base 10.2019051400
ii ruby 1:2.5.1
ii ruby-augeas 1:0.5.0-3+b6
ii ruby-deep-merge 1.1.1-1
ii ruby-shadow 2.5.0-1+b1
Versions of packages puppet recommends:
ii debconf-utils 1.5.71
ii lsb-release 10.2019051400
ii ruby-selinux 2.8-1+b1
Versions of packages puppet suggests:
pn ruby-hocon <none>
pn ruby-rrd <none>
-- no debconf information
