[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#509566:

[Faidon Liambotis]

Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>> FWIW, I don't agree. I don't find it acceptable to have a
>> fresh-installed package writing 2 lines on my syslog every 5 seconds.
> 
> Busylooping is obviously wrong, but doing it every 5 seconds is not an
> unacceptable burden. It does not load the system significantly. Especially
> because you will be using puppetca not long after installing the package
> to authorise the host and the message will go away. It's not like this
> behaviour occurs permanently, rather it will only be in the bootstrapping
> window between installing puppet on a host and acknowledging it on the
> puppetmaster.
You're assuming that you are prepared to deploy puppet.

Sometimes people just install a package to read documentation/the
manpages/read the code etc.

It should either need manual work for the init script to start (i.e.
disable autostart) or have a sensible default for the loop delay.

I think that the first would hurt automated installations, esp. if it
isn't a debconf question that can be preseeded.

Therefore, I'd suggest just increasing the delay to the upstream default.

> I do not contest that such a change could be useful but the package is in
> my opinion in a condition to release.
Well, I'd say that I think it'd be acceptable to have such a change such
late in the release cycle but I wouldn't suggest removing the package if
this isn't fixed.

In any case, I'd prefer it if the maintainer was a little more responsive...

Regards,
Faidon