Version 3.3.3 seems to affect installation of puppet-r10k in a negative way

[davide4hire]

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: 5.5.3 and 5.5.6 (tested)
• Ruby: version bundled with puppet
• Distribution: CentOS-7
• Module version: 3.3.3

How to reproduce (e.g Puppet code you use)

sudo /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet module install --modulepath=/tmp/odd-behavior puppet-hiera
sudo /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet module install --modulepath=/tmp/odd-behavior puppet-r10k

sudo /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet module install --modulepath=/tmp/better-behavior --version=3.3.2 puppet-hiera
sudo /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet module install --modulepath=/tmp/better-behavior puppet-r10k

What are you seeing

After installing version 3.3.3 of puppet-hiera using "puppet module install" and then installing puppet-r10k, the version of puppet-r10k that gets installed is not the current version.

However, if the install of puppet-hiera is pinned to the previous version, 3.3.2, then the install of puppet-r10k gets the most current version.

What behaviour did you expect instead

I would expect that the version of puppet-hiera installed would not affect the version of puppet-r10k that gets installed. Especially since there really isn't any connection between the two modules (that I can see). They do share a dependency on puppetlabs-inifile and pupeptlabs-stdlib.

Output log

If you execute the 4 commands above on a system running puppet-5 you should see the installed versions of the modules. In the "odd-behavior" case, the version of puppet-r10k is 'v4.0.2'. While the "better-behvior" case the version is 'v6.6.1', which is the current version as this issue is being created.

puppet-issue.log

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