[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#618632: puppet: Improper Depends

[Corey Quinn]

Package: puppet
Version: 2.6.6-1
Severity: important

The build dependancy of Ruby is set to version 1.8.1; this limits the utility of this package on older releases, as Ruby 1.8 is all that's required according to upstream.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-4-pve (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages puppet depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.112+nmu2       add and remove users and groups
ii  facter                  1.5.7-3          a library for retrieving facts fro
pn  libopenssl-ruby         <none>           (no description available)
ii  libruby [libxmlrpc-ruby 4.5              Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii  libshadow-ruby1.8       1.4.1-8          Interface of shadow password for R
ii  libxmlrpc-ruby          4.2              transitional dummy package
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  puppet-common           2.6.2-4          Centralized configuration manageme
ii  ruby1.8                 1.8.7.302-2      Interpreter of object-oriented scr

Versions of packages puppet recommends:
ii  libaugeas-ruby1.8             0.3.0-1.1  Augeas bindings for the Ruby langu
ii  rdoc                          4.2        Generate documentation from ruby s

Versions of packages puppet suggests:
pn  libselinux-ruby1.8            <none>     (no description available)
pn  puppet-el                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  vim-puppet                    <none>     (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/puppet changed [not included]

-- no debconf information