[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#854487: Bug#854487: Bug#854487: Bug#854487: Bug#854487: Binary-only package puppet was silently converted into a package shipping and running a service

[Russ Allbery]

Apollon Oikonomopoulos <apoikos at debian.org> writes:

> Additionally, all the setups I know of use cron for running the puppet
> agent, so these admins will want the service disabled anyway (of course
> this is argumentum ad populum, but it serves as an indication that this
> is not an unreasonable course of action).

Yeah, this is a good argument.  Works for me!  It's also good to use a
more robust mechanism for doing this so that we don't get accidental
problems in the future when the locking stuff changes again.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>