Comment 85 for bug 1640978

This is still a valid issue for everyone want to do a proper QA chain in software delivery. Both the recent Snap package from Robie as the certbot PPA by our Debian heroes have the problem on different install times you have different versions installed. On a big bunch of boxes this gives us the pain ensuring QA of new versions before roll out to production. Doing cheap cherry picking from the certbot PPA in the past i just gave the packages from proposed a rebuilt try.

Could at first not reproduce the build failure in my pbuilder chain of crap with the rebuilt order of python-letsencrypt, python-acme, python-certbot. But when rebuilding python-letsencrypt then with python-acme_0.14.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 as an Build-Depends (without an updated version require) i hit it as well:

   dh_auto_test -O--buildsystem=pybuild
I: pybuild base:184: python2.7 setup.py test
running test
Searching for acme==0.4.1

Note: Bypassing https://pypi.python.org/simple/acme/ (disallowed host; see http://bit.ly/1dg9ijs for details).

Couldn't find index page for 'acme' (maybe misspelled?)
Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)

Note: Bypassing https://pypi.python.org/simple/ (disallowed host; see http://bit.ly/1dg9ijs for details).

No local packages or download links found for acme==0.4.1
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('acme==0.4.1')
E: pybuild pybuild:274: test: plugin distutils failed with: exit code=1: python2.7 setup.py test
dh_auto_test: pybuild --test -i python{version} -p 2.7 --dir . returned exit code 13
debian/rules:8: recipe for target 'build' failed
make: *** [build] Error 25

Just like in: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/335455860/buildlog_ubuntu-xenial-amd64.python-letsencrypt_0.4.1-1ubuntu0.16.04.1_BUILDING.txt.gz

Unfortunately i am not too deep into Python here for fixing the fix easily. But as this build failure is the blocker for an SRU i hope someone of the involved rock stars here might figured out easy how to fix it.