certbot lost certificates , and registration data

[Matthew Seaman]

On 10/12/2018 20:46, Carmel NY wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 17:56:22 +0000, Matthew Seaman stated:
> 
>> This was due to an upstream change moving where various paths are 
>> defined to a different file, and so making the port's attempt to modify 
>> the settings in the original file pretty futile.  I'll be working on a 
>> fix later tonight.
> 
> I am not sure if all of the py*-certbots are maintained by the same person;
> but shouldn't they have caught this problem before releasing it? They must
> have tested it, right?
> 

They're mostly maintained by python at FreeBSD.org which is a group of
people (See towards the end of https://wiki.freebsd.org/Python).

Yes, ideally this mistake would have been caught before the port was
updated.  It's a slightly tricky thing though -- test building would
have shown everything was fine.  It's only when anyone tried to *run*
certbot that the problems become apparent, and no-one did that before
committing the upgrade.  For routine updates patch-level updates like
this one, 99% of the time just doing build tests is sufficient.  This
unluckily happened to be one of the 1%.

If anyone is interested in testing it, I've created a patch which can be
downloaded from https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233909

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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