RPM package types unable to handle multiple providers for a virtual package

Puppet Version: 7.18.0
Puppet Server Version: N/A
OS Name/Version: CentOS 7, Alma Linux 8, Oracle Linux 8

When checking whether a package is already present, Puppet queries RPM using the package name and also using '–whatprovides' in case the requested object is a virtual package provided by some other.

When the virtual package is provided by multiple installed RPMs, Puppet fails with the following message: "Could not evaluate: no implicit conversion of Array into Hash"

Easily reproduced by trying to apply this simple manifest on a system from RedHat family with both curl and wget installed:

package { 'webclient':

   ensure => installed,

}

(We use 'webclient' here to provide an easily reproducible case. Our real issue is with 'perf' package on Oracle Linux that is provided by kernel-uek and a system can have several kernels installed.)

Desired Behavior:

Puppet understands that the requested object is already present from multiple sources and does nothing.

Actual Behavior:

Puppet fails with error:

# puppet apply -e "package { 'webclient': }"

Notice: Compiled catalog for XX in environment production in 0.02 seconds

Error: /Stage[main]/Main/Package[webclient]: Could not evaluate: no implicit conversion of Array into Hash

# rpm -q --whatprovides webclient

wget-1.14-18.el7_6.1.x86_64

curl-7.29.0-59.el7_9.1.x86_64