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

[John Bond]

Hi Apollon,

Thanks for your response, your explanation and reasoning makes sense.
Having augueas-tools linked to puppet would, in retrospect, seem like a
more logical place.  would you like me to raise a new bug against puppet or
is it possible to reassign this one especially as the maintainers seem to
be the same

Thanks John

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 11:00 PM Apollon Oikonomopoulos <apoikos at debian.org>
wrote:

> 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
>
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