[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#924920: Bug#924920: facter: augeas-tools missing from Recommends directive

[Apollon Oikonomopoulos]

Control: reassign -1 puppet
Control: priority -1 wishlist

Hi John,

On 13:17 Mon 18 Mar     , John Bond wrote:
> Package: facter
> Version: 3.11.0-1.1+b1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> `augparse`, which is provided by `augeas-tools`, is required by `facter` to
> resolve the `augeasversion` fact[1].  If augparse is not present facter
> returns an empty string and exits cleanly. please consider adding the
> following

Thanks for the report! While I do understand your frustration, I don't 
think it is appropriate to add augeas-tools to facter's Recommends; I 
simply don't think it's the right place to solve this issue. Having 
facter Recommend: augeas-tools just to get a fact resolved by default is 
like Recommend'ing zfs-dkms to get the zfs facts resolved by default.  
Facter is there just to tell you what your system looks like and we 
shouldn't configure our systems around facter to get every possible fact 
supported.

That said, I admit that most of the times, facter co-exists with puppet 
and puppet has already pulled in most of augeas, although not 
augeas-tools. I think it's possible to include augeas-tools in puppet's 
Recommends instead, which should do what you want, what do you think?

Regards,
Apollon