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...t you care about, and can leave the rest unmanaged."[4] However, this "bug" has been around so long, at least 0.24.8, that we can''t change behaviors in a minor release.[5] Patrick and I talked about this and would like to propose adding a file parameter, something like `use_source_permissions`. If true and permissions are unspecified, Puppet would continue copying source permissions as it does today, for both newly created and existing files. This would be the default. If false and permission are unspecified, Puppet would never copy them from the source. Instead the permission defa...