Ubuntu 16.04 installs python-letsencrypt 0.4.1-1 by default instead of 0.9.3

[GrayPockets]

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Distribution: Ubuntu
• Module version: 2.4.0

How to reproduce (e.g Puppet code you use)

Install on Ubuntu-16.04

What are you seeing

The default letsencrypt package installed is python-letsencrypt 0.4.1-1 https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/python-letsencrypt

What behaviour did you expect instead

It should use version 0.9.3 by default

Workaround

install_method => 'vcs',

[GrayPockets]

This was caused by #61 , as Ubuntu 16.04 stayed on the previous default version.

[HT43-bqxFqB]

This causes a failure to check on every puppet agent run due to the wrong argument for the command.

[Dan33l]

Simple using the package provided by the distrib is not a bug.

Does it exists an issue with package of the distrib ?

[GrayPockets]

Yes. The older package definitely caused cert renewal issues for me.
The nginx module didn't work at all, as the older package does not contain it.

[pier4r]

Example that worked on Ubuntu 16.04 with puppet.

class { 'letsencrypt':
    configure_epel      => false,
    unsafe_registration => true,
    install_method      => 'vcs',
    version             => 'v0.9.3', #ubuntu 16.04 requirement
    repo                => 'https://github.com/certbot/certbot.git',
}

[Dan33l]

The version provided by ubuntu 16.04 is now python-letsencrypt - 0.7.0

[pier4r]

Not really for the LTS version, that is the 16.04 (normally in a ops environment one tends to use LTS versions)

https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/allpackages?format=txt.gz
letsencrypt (0.4.1-1) [universe] Let's Encrypt main client

[Dan33l]

More informations:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/+source/python-letsencrypt/+bug/1640978
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/+source/python-letsencrypt/+bug/1640978/comments/129

[Dan33l]

Since package used by Ubuntu 16.04 is updated, i proceed to close the ticket. Feel free to reopen if you find it should be usefull.