Puppet users - Mar 2014 - Recursive file delete fails with empty files

Sample config: 


        file { "/var/www/apps":
                mode    => 0644,
                owner   => "username"
                group   => "groupname",
                ensure  => directory,
                recurse => true,
                purge   => true,
                force   => true,
        }


Then on the agent: 

root@vpsXXX:/var/www/apps# ls
root@vpsXXX:/var/www/apps# touch testfile
root@vpsXXX:/var/www/apps# puppet agent -t
Warning: Local environment: "production" doesn't match server
specified
node environment "development", switching agent to
"development".
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/facility.rb
Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/gateway.rb
Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/xen_hypervisor_version.rb
Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/is_bridge.rb
Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/root_pass_set_date.rb
Info: Caching catalog for vpsXXX.nope.com
Info: Applying configuration version '1394485475'
Error: Could not back up /var/www/apps/testfile: Error 400 on SERVER: No 
data to save
Error: Could not back up /var/www/apps/testfile: Error 400 on SERVER: No 
data to save
Error: /Stage[main]/App_manager/File[/var/www/apps/testfile]/ensure: change 
from file to absent failed: Could not back up /var/www/apps/testfile: Error 
400 on SERVER: No data to save
Notice: 
/Stage[main]/App_manager/App_manager::App[treslervania]/File[/var/www/apps/treslervania]:
Dependency File[/var/www/apps/testfile] has failures: true
Warning: 
/Stage[main]/App_manager/App_manager::App[treslervania]/File[/var/www/apps/treslervania]:
Skipping because of failed dependencies

----many more dependency failures due to that ^^^ ------

root@vpsXXX:/var/www/apps# echo 'foo' >> testfile 
root@vpsXXX:/var/www/apps# puppet agent -t
Warning: Local environment: "production" doesn't match server
specified
node environment "development", switching agent to
"development".
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/facility.rb
Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/gateway.rb
Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/xen_hypervisor_version.rb
Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/is_bridge.rb
Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/root_pass_set_date.rb
Info: Caching catalog for vpsXXX.nope.com
Info: Applying configuration version '1394485381'
Info: /Stage[main]/App_manager/File[/var/www/apps/testfile]: Filebucketed 
/var/www/apps/testfile to main with sum d3b07384d113edec49eaa6238ad5ff00
Notice: /Stage[main]/App_manager/File[/var/www/apps/testfile]/ensure: 
removed
Notice: Finished catalog run in 46.07 seconds
root@vpsXXX:/var/www/apps#



So, is this a known bug, by design, or something that I should figure out 
how to file a bug report for? 

I can work around it easily enough, but it seems like a recursive, forced, 
purge shouldn't be stymied by a 0 byte file. neh? 

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