[Certbot-dev] [Letsencrypt-devel] Certbot in Debian Stretch

[Harlan Lieberman-Berg]

On November 25, 2016 4:05:30 PM EST, James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com> wrote:
>It may have been; in any case it took *weeks* for the bug I saw to get
>fixed.  And it doesn't matter where the bug was, it still made it
>impossible to apt-get install the certbot package.  Which still defines
>the certbot in jessie-backports experience as (at least historically)
>unreliable.

Hi Jim,

Dropping the lists here to get some more specifics.

The fix we put in place took about ten days to hit. It shouldn't have been broken longer than that; we didn't close the bug immediately, because we wanted the dependency to fix their versioning. 

It's possible the workaround didn't actually correct the problem fully; it should have, but I only tested it briefly. (It was simply adding in a downstream dependency with a versioning restriction).

Do you happen to remember when the problem was? I'd like to make sure I understand, since I agree completely; a fix taking weeks is not acceptable, and I am upset and embarrassed to learn one of my packages took that long.

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Harlan Lieberman-Berg
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