Update awscli to 1.15.15 from sid

[Toni Spets]

Please sync awscli 1.15.15-1 from cosmic/sid to bionic-updates.

It is an essential cloud management client and when it is left behind we are forced to use pip to install the latest version. Currently it is missing support for Secrets Manager (which 1.15.15 has) and that is causing headaches.

As far as I understand, universe packages can have minor feature updates during the lifetime of an LTS distribution and this tool in my opinion needs to be synced periodically with sid to help with cloud deployments.

Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Graham Leggett (minfrin-y)]

We have the same problem.

Lots of painful messing around to get access to bugfixes and new AWS services.

[Joshua Powers (powersj)]

Consider using the aws-cli snap. It is updated by aws and tracks the latest version. As of today it is at 1.15.63:

> snap info aws-cli
name: aws-cli
summary: Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services
publisher: aws
contact: https://console.aws.amazon.com/support
license: unknown
description: |
  The AWS CLI is an open source tool built on top of the AWS SDK for Python
  (Boto) that provides commands for interacting with AWS services. With
  minimal configuration, you can start using all of the functionality
  provided by the AWS Management Console from your favorite terminal program.
commands:
  - aws-cli.aws
snap-id: CRrJViJiSuDcCkU31G0xpNRVNaj4P960
tracking: stable
refresh-date: 9 days ago, at 07:33 PDT
channels:
  stable: 1.15.63 (133) 15MB classic
  candidate: ↑
  beta: ↑
  edge: ↑
installed: 1.15.63 (133) 15MB classic

[Toni Spets (hifi)]

To be honest that's not a bad idea, thanks for the tip as I never would have thought to look for a snap.

There are some caveats but I think I can live with them as long as Amazon keeps good care of the snap. Synchronizing the "real" package with cosmic/sid from time to time would be nice as well.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Ubuntu 18.10 now has awscli 1.15.79-1. Ubuntu 18.10 will be released later this month.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Here's the documentation for how bug fixes get in to Ubuntu stable releases:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure