= Main Inclusion Report for puppet =

== Requirements ==

 0. ''Availability:'' [[http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/puppet]]; available for all supported architectures or some subset ?
 0. ''Rationale:''
  * Provide a tool for configuraion management for large installations and dynamic cloud deployment.
 0. ''Security:''
  * No [[http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=puppet|CVE]] entries.
  * No [[http://secunia.com/search/?search=puppet|Secunia]] history.
  * No binaries running as root or suid/sgid ?  
  * Runs the puppetd daemon and puppetmasterd daemon.
  * Due to the nature of puppet it accepts incoming and outcoing network data and opens a port as well.
  * Directly (not through a library) processes structured  data.
  * No source code review performed.
 0. ''Quality assurance:''
  * The situation where the package does not work out of the box is that the configuration files are misconfigured or the puppet reciepes are incorrect.
  * The package does not ask any debconf questions.
  * [[http://bugs.debian.org/src:puppet|Debian bugs]]: 518831 is particularily interesting.
  * [[http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/puppet.html|Maintenance in Debian]] is vigorous.
  * [[http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet|Upstream]] is frentic.
  * [http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/issues?set_filter=1 |Upstream bug tracker]]
  * Does not deal with any special hardware.
  * There is an upstream test suite but its not enabled in the build.
 0. ''Standards compliance:'' 
  * [[http://www.pathname.com/fhs/|FHS]] and [[http://www.de.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/|Debian Policy]] compliant.
  * Uses debhelper with no patch system.
 0. ''Dependencies:'' ruby, libopenssl-ruby, facter, openssl, debhelper,libxmlrpc-ruby, libopenssl-ruby, libshadow-ruby1.8, adduser, facter, lsb-base
  * All are in main except facter, libxmlrpc-ruby, libshadow-ruby1.8
 0. ''Maintenance:''
  * Since its a popular package in debian and used by companies like google it is a well maintained package. The Ubuntu server team will responsible for taking care of the package in Ubuntu which includes monitoring and fixing bugs.

== Reviewers ==

MIR bug: [[https://launchpad.net/bugs/BUGNUMBER]]

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