Should puppet-master require, suggest or recommend activerecord?

[Darren Worrall]

Binary package hint: puppet

Just experimenting with upgrading to 2.6(.1~rc2-0ubuntu1) on maverick. I installed puppetmaster-passenger (which works great btw), copied over my configs and manifests, and it complained that storeconfigs = true could not be used without activerecord

I installed libactiverecord-ruby and all was ok, but I noted that at the moment the puppetmaster[-* ] package[s] do neither require, nor suggest/recommend it

For me, it should be a straight dependency, but I use it, so I'm biased! I suppose that it could also depend/suggest a database adapter, libdbd-sqlite3-ruby maybe?

apt-cache policy puppetmaster-passenger
puppetmaster-passenger:
  Installed: 2.6.1~rc2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.6.1~rc2-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.1~rc2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

apt-cache policy libactiverecord-ruby
libactiverecord-ruby:
  Installed: 2.3.5-1
  Candidate: 2.3.5-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.3.5-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

The rails package is suggested instead of libactiverecord-ruby. IIUC the only part that puppet uses from rails is activerecord. So suggesting libactiverecord-ruby instead of rails makes sense.