found out this while deploying restbase on restbase1003 (jessie)
Debug: Executing '/usr/sbin/service cassandra status' Debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderTrebuchet: file /sbin/status does not exist Error: /Package[restbase/deploy]: Provider trebuchet is not functional on this host
and indeed in modules/trebuchet/lib/puppet/provider/package/trebuchet.rb
32 commands :git_cmd => '/usr/bin/git', 33 :salt_cmd => '/usr/bin/salt-call', 34 :status_cmd => '/sbin/status'