[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#627069: puppet: Puppet agent installation should install package lsb-release

[Eric Veiras Galisson]

Package: puppet
Version: 2.6.2-4
Severity: normal


Hi,

When using modules with Puppet, they are often done to deal with several
Linux distributions and several Debian releases. This can be used to
deal with different services names (like 'apache' is 'httpd' on
redhat-like) or package names.
For example the 'mailx' package is now named 'bsd-mailx' on squeeze and
later.

The problem is Puppet uses the function lsb_release from the lsb-release
package which is not installed by default on Debian.

Can it be possible to add the 'lsb-release' package to the puppet
dependencies?

Thanks.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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  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  ruby [rdoc]                   4.5        An interpreter of object-oriented 

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)

-- no debconf information