[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#947105: puppet: Default install uses outdated configuration file and directory locations

[Todd H. Poole]

Package: puppet
Version: 5.5.10-4
Severity: important

Hi Maintainers,

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. Poole


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages puppet depends on:
ii  adduser              3.118
ii  facter               3.11.0-2+deb10u1
ii  hiera                3.2.0-2
ii  init-system-helpers  1.56+nmu1
ii  lsb-base             10.2019051400
ii  ruby                 1:2.5.1
ii  ruby-augeas          1:0.5.0-3+b6
ii  ruby-deep-merge      1.1.1-1
ii  ruby-shadow          2.5.0-1+b1

Versions of packages puppet recommends:
ii  debconf-utils  1.5.71
ii  lsb-release    10.2019051400
ii  ruby-selinux   2.8-1+b1

Versions of packages puppet suggests:
pn  ruby-hocon  <none>
pn  ruby-rrd    <none>

-- no debconf information