Could not understand duplicity version.

[Teh Kok How]

$ duplicity --version
duplicity 2.1.4
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Release: 24.04
Codename: noble

WTF?

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Interesting… that usually means that duplicity crashed on us or had some other odd error when we asked it for its version.

But when you do it on the terminal, it’s fine…

Are you using the standard Ubuntu distro version of deja Dup (vs flatpak or snap releases?)

[Teh Kok How (khteh)]

There is no deja Dup / backup-restore app installed in my 24.04 system. What happen!?!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Sorry but it's a bit unclear from the report what the problem is? 2.1.4 seems the be the right version (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/duplicity/2.1.4-3ubuntu2)?

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

I think this is a report against Deja Dup - that string is an error message we give if 'duplicity --version' doesn't actually give us a parsable version string.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

@Teh Kok How, could you provide a bit more details on where you see that error and how you trigger it?

[Teh Kok How (khteh)]

Triggered by the scheduled backup. Initially `duplicity --version` hits the same error in the terminal due to some missing python package. Install that missing package to resove the error seen in the terminal. However, I have no clue why Deja Dup was removed from my system at all!?!