Your message dated Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:56:18 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#1147993: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #761426, regarding puppet resource does not tell the truth for files that may not be accessed to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: puppet-common Version: 3.7.0-1 I have a bunch of logcheck rules in /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/mylogcheck, served by puppet. If I query puppet about it as root, I get this: # puppet resource file /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/mylogcheck file { '/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/mylogcheck': ensure => 'file', content => '{md5}88fc34cf0e49645dc5635ee44ec803a4', ctime => '2014-09-13 13:12:13 +0200', group => '116', mode => '640', mtime => '2014-09-13 13:12:13 +0200', owner => '0', type => 'file', } but if I query about it as a normal user, I get this: $ puppet resource file /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/mylogcheck Warning: /File[/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/mylogcheck]: Could not stat; permission denied file { '/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/mylogcheck': ensure => 'absent', } The ensure => 'absent' part is simply not true. The "ignore.d.paranoid" directory above is root:logcheck and it has "rwxr-s---" permissions, so the considered file may not even be accessed. It should be noted that puppet gives a proper error for files it can access but not read. In fact, if I change "ignore.d.paranoid" to be mode 755 and try again as a normal user, I get this instead: $ puppet resource file /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/mylogcheck Error: Could not run: Could not read file /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/mylogcheck: Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/mylogcheck So, maybe this could be fixed by considering this case as an Error and not as a Warning. Thanks.
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 8.10.0-6+rm Dear submitter, as the package puppet-agent has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1147993 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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