ansible-galaxy cli can't talk to galaxy server

[Markus Falb]

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$ podman run -ti ubuntu:22.04
root@524fb540d6c1:/# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Release: 22.04
root@524fb540d6c1:/# apt update && apt install ansible-core python3-pip
... lots of output
~~~

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root@524fb540d6c1:/# apt-cache policy ansible-core
ansible-core:
  Installed: 2.12.0-1ubuntu0.1
  Candidate: 2.12.0-1ubuntu0.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.12.0-1ubuntu0.1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.12.0-1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
~~~

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root@524fb540d6c1:/# ansible-galaxy --version
ansible-galaxy [core 2.12.0]
  config file = None
  configured module search path = ['/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /root/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible-galaxy
  python version = 3.10.12 (main, Nov 20 2023, 15:14:05) [GCC 11.4.0]
  jinja version = 3.0.3
  libyaml = True
~~~

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root@524fb540d6c1:/# ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
Starting galaxy collection install process
Process install dependency map
ERROR! Unexpected Exception, this is probably a bug: CollectionDependencyProvider.find_matches() got an unexpected keyword argument 'identifier'
to see the full traceback, use -vvv
~~~

this is the wrong error message, sadly enough
I install an older version of resolvelib.

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root@524fb540d6c1:/# pip install "resolvelib<0.6.0"
Collecting resolvelib<0.6.0
  Downloading resolvelib-0.5.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (12 kB)
Installing collected packages: resolvelib
  Attempting uninstall: resolvelib
    Found existing installation: resolvelib 0.8.1
    Not uninstalling resolvelib at /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages, outside environment /usr
    Can't uninstall 'resolvelib'. No files were found to uninstall.
Successfully installed resolvelib-0.5.4
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv
~~~

the error has changed.
here is the bug that I want to report: I try to install a collection, but can't

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root@524fb540d6c1:/# ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
Starting galaxy collection install process
Process install dependency map
[WARNING]: Skipping Galaxy server https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/. Got an unexpected error when getting available versions of collection community.general:
'/api/v3/plugin/ansible/content/published/collections/index/community/general/versions/'
ERROR! Unexpected Exception, this is probably a bug: '/api/v3/plugin/ansible/content/published/collections/index/community/general/versions/'
to see the full traceback, use -vvv
~~~

It is possible to specify the old galaxy, which is read-only in a frozen state.
This is to prove that the resolvelib hack from above does work.

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root@524fb540d6c1:/# ansible-galaxy collection install -s https://old-galaxy.ansible.com community.general
Starting galaxy collection install process
Process install dependency map
Starting collection install process
Downloading https://old-galaxy.ansible.com/download/community-general-7.4.0.tar.gz to /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-4941qi_yav66/tmpj6v26kip/community-general-7.4.0-c4jvvfft
Installing 'community.general:7.4.0' to '/root/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/general'
community.general:7.4.0 was installed successfully
~~~

However, only old content is available from old galaxy.
Hard rewording of the summary: ansible-galaxy is unusable.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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