Comment 1 for bug 978708

This debdiff was tested with a local build. It passed the 'umt compare-log', 'umt compare-bin', and 'umt check' verifications. It was also tested with 'cd /usr/share/puppet-testsuite && rake spec unit'.

It fixes a very early failure in 'rake spec' and now allows the testsuite to finish. I noticed that debian/patches/puppet-12844 was not complete in comparison to the upstream patch. I downloaded the complete patch from:

https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/62738187b8a1ba1bd2b5e0737836741b8019a924.patch

Then I did the necessary touch-ups to the patch and replaced the old puppet-12844 with the new, more complete version.

If the partial import of 62738187 was intentional, then this debdiff may not be acceptable. However, it looked like it may have simply been the result of an import error or possibly a non-final version of the upstream patch. Hopefully Marc Cluet can comment on this.