Run error on Debian 8.1: service[modules-load] not found

[saintaardvark]

I'm getting this error when using version 0.2.0 of the modules cookbook (included from network_interfaces_v2) on Debian 8.1:

       [2015-10-16T22:20:27+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /tmp/kitchen/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
       [2015-10-16T22:20:27+00:00] ERROR: debian_network_interface[eth0:1] (internal-network-interfaces::default line 8) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::ResourceNotFound: resource template[/etc/modules-load.d/chef-attibutes.conf] is configured to notify resource service[modules-load] with action start, but service[modules-load] cannot be found in the resource collection. template[/etc/modules-load.d/chef-attibutes.conf] is defined in /tmp/kitchen/cache/cookbooks/modules/recipes/install_attributes.rb:23:in `from_file'

Being a Chef newbie, I'm not sure I've got this right...but I seem to be able to get around this by monkey-patching recipes/install_attributes.rb like so:

when "ubuntu"
  include_recipe 'modules::config'
  template "/etc/modules-load.d/chef-attibutes.conf" do
    source "modules.conf.erb"
    mode "0644"
    owner "root"
    group "root"
    variables(
      :modules => node['modules']['modules']
    )
    notifies :start, "service[modules-load]"
    only_if { node['modules']['modules'] }
  end
end

I realize a) that's ugly and b) Debian is not officially supported. To fix a) I tried adding a block like this one for Debian, but was unable to get it working...for some reason it seemed like the block simply wasn't being seen or evaluated. And in my defense: it's ugly but it works (as in, I can add simple aliases that don't require any kernel modules).

As for b), I'd be interested in seeing Debian support for this, and would be happy to test things out.

Thanks kindly for your help, and please let me know if you need any further information.

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