Facter lists sys-filesystem as a development dependency in their
gemspec, but this was evidently done to allow for gem installs with a C
compiler as detailed in d7f954944780791c5a0bc3b1aedc669b5d73281f.
However, without this dependency the mountpoints fact returns no data
and the partitions fact does not return mount data. Puppet's published
packages include sys-filesystem. Given the C compiler problem is not an
issue for Debian's package, I think ruby-sys-filesystem should be a
dependency rather than a recommends.

Thanks for maintaining facter, yours kindly Jesse Hathaway

Hello,

I'm not convinced that unavailable partitions and mount facts render the
facter package necessarily broken. The same could be said about all the
other Recommended packages, like dmidecode and virt-what, for example,
because facter works fine without them but it will report more
information if they're available.

I'm curious to understand under what scenario the facter package is
being installed without its "Recommends:".

As a reminder, section 7.1 of the Debian Policy states the following
with regards to Recommends:

"This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.

The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together
with this one in all but unusual installations."

I think ruby-sys-filesystem, and the others, fit this description.

Thanks,