Puppet version bump

[John Moser]

On 02/05/2013 07:45 PM, Ryan Tandy wrote:
> John Moser <john.r.moser <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 2.  Convince Ubuntu to put the newest Puppetmaster in Backports.  I am
>> not advocating this either.
>
> Slightly off-topic, but FWIW I would be happy to see raring's puppet
> (whatever version that ends up being) in precise-backports.
> lucid-backports has puppet 2.7 and that made my life a LOT easier since
> my puppetmaster runs precise and I am using some recent modules. Having
> backports available but not installed by default is really quite nice.
> Furthermore it's quite likely that at some point I'll have some clients
> running a newer Ubuntu than the puppetmaster, and it would be great to
> be able to support it just by upgrading puppetmaster to a backports
> version.
>
>

http://apt.puppetlabs.com/

While we're at it, why is etckeeper stuff in the package?  The 
Puppetlabs guys said because it's in Debian's package and "Debian 
packagers are fruitbats", so they're imitating "for compatibility."