puppetserver package 7.16.0 does not pull in puppet-agent during install.

[iscb1962]

https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/upgrade_puppet_server.html

states "The puppetserver package, in turn, depends on the puppet-agent package, and your node’s package manager automatically upgrades puppet-agent if the new version of puppetserver requires it.”

We used puppet itself to update the puppetserver package and it did not pull in the puppet-agent package which resulted in the puppetserver failing to start due to some gem dependencies missing.

Either the document is wrong or the documentation is wrong. I'm going to raise this in both docs and bugs.

Host originally running puppetserver 7.9.2 / agent 7.20.0.
Use puppet module to install the package puppetserver - installs puppetserver 7.16.0 (as defined in hieradata) but does not install puppet-agent.
Result is a broken puppetserver.

[lisarobertson]

this is a duplicate of #1162 - therefore I'm closing this issue. We have triaged 1162 and it is now part of our internal backlog.