debian has both status and restart options, in fact restart is

preferable because a stop/start operation can leave sshd broken
because the stop wont stop before the start is run. On the next puppet
run ssh will be brought back up, but its a hair-raising few minutes
while you wonder what happened

manifests/init.pp

@@ -247,7 +247,8 @@ class sshd::debian inherits sshd::linux {
     }
     Service[sshd]{
         name => 'ssh',
-        hasstatus => false,
+        hasstatus => true,
+        hasrestart => true,
     }
 }
 class sshd::ubuntu inherits sshd::debian {}