On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 21:46:05 -0500 "Todd H. Poole"
<toddhpoolew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: puppet
> Version: 5.5.10-4
> Severity: important
>
> 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. PooleAlthough I'm not a maintainer for this package, I respectfully disagree with you on this. First of all, I feel the severity level for this bug is too high. In my opinion, this should be downgraded to a wishlist bug, as the current behavior does not break anything nor induces any critical vulnerability. I also don't think the current default configuration directory should be changed. There are a bunch of things the Debian puppet package does differently then upstream, for a bunch of reasons. For example, we are not installing Puppet in /opt/puppetlabs, because that's not the Debian way of doing things. I feel /etc/puppet minimizes breakage when upgrading to newer versions of Puppet, is clearer than /etc/puppetlabs/puppet and is quicker to type. I'd be sad if we moved away from that. The man page not being consistent with the current Debian behavior should be filed as a separate bug, as I think this should indeed be fixed :). If you do that, I'll be happy to send a patch to make it so. Cheers, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ po...@debian.org / veronneau.org ⠈⠳⣄
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