Comment 1 for bug 1495853

Note that the same scenario behaves correctly under Debian jessie, with the patched debian service provider in version 3.7.2-3:

 https://bugs.debian.org/775795

Similar example on a Debian jessie system:

 $ sudo lsb_release -d
 Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.2 (jessie)
 $ apt-cache policy puppet
 puppet:
   Installed: 3.7.2-4
   Candidate: 3.7.2-4
   Version table:
  *** 3.7.2-4 0
  500 http://apt/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
  100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 $ dpkg -L bird | vgrep ...
 /etc/init/bird.conf
 /etc/init/bird6.conf
 /etc/init.d/bird
 /etc/init.d/bird6
 /lib/systemd/system/bird.service
 /lib/systemd/system/bird6.service

 $ sudo puppet resource --debug --param provider --param enable service bird
 Debug: Executing '/usr/sbin/service bird status'
 Debug: Executing '/bin/systemctl show -pSourcePath bird'
 Debug: Executing '/bin/systemctl is-enabled bird'
 service { 'bird':
   ensure => 'running',
   enable => 'true',
   provider => 'debian',
 }
 $ sudo puppet resource --debug --param provider --param enable service bird enable=false
 Debug: Executing '/usr/sbin/service bird status'
 Debug: Executing '/bin/systemctl show -pSourcePath bird'
 Debug: Executing '/bin/systemctl is-enabled bird'
 Debug: Executing '/bin/systemctl disable bird'
 Notice: /Service[bird]/enable: enable changed 'true' to 'false'
 Debug: Finishing transaction 16554200
 Debug: Storing state
 Debug: Stored state in 0.29 seconds
 Debug: Executing '/usr/sbin/service bird status'
 Debug: Executing '/bin/systemctl show -pSourcePath bird'
 Debug: Executing '/bin/systemctl is-enabled bird'
 service { 'bird':
   ensure => 'running',
   enable => 'false',
   provider => 'debian',
 }
 $ sudo puppet resource --debug --param provider --param enable service bird enable=true
 Debug: Executing '/usr/sbin/service bird status'
 Debug: Executing '/bin/systemctl show -pSourcePath bird'
 Debug: Executing '/bin/systemctl is-enabled bird'
 Debug: Executing '/bin/systemctl enable bird'
 Notice: /Service[bird]/enable: enable changed 'false' to 'true'
 Debug: Finishing transaction 18953360
 Debug: Storing state
 Debug: Stored state in 0.21 seconds
 Debug: Executing '/usr/sbin/service bird status'
 Debug: Executing '/bin/systemctl show -pSourcePath bird'
 Debug: Executing '/bin/systemctl is-enabled bird'
 service { 'bird':
   ensure => 'running',
   enable => 'true',
   provider => 'debian',
 }