Puppet refuses to run when ruby-gpg is not installed

[varac]

puppetd --test
info: Retrieving plugin
info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/interfaces.rb
info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/acpi_available.rb
info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/mysql_server.rb
info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/concat_basedir.rb
info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/mountpoints.rb
info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/pgsql_server.rb

err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Could not intern from pson: Could not autoload gpgkey: Could not autoload /var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet/provider/gpgkey/gpgme.rb: no such file to load -- gpgme
warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
err: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run

It doesn't even get to the point where it could apply the gpg class, which would install the packages.

If i do a manual "apt-get install ruby-gpgme", everything works.

[varac]

for the record, i think this problem is related to http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/17747

[rbu]

That bug is fixed (and marked as a duplicate). According to the other closed bug report (http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/14822), it should be possible since 2.7.20-rc1 and 3.0.2-rc1 to defer provider resolution until after a ruby dependency is installed via puppet.

[razorsedge]

This is also biting me.