[Letsencrypt-devel] Bug#812223: letsencrypt: Trips over package's own /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/.keepdir during renewal

[Axel Beckert]

Package: letsencrypt
Version: 0.2.0-1
Severity: minor

Dear Debian Let's Encrypt Maintainers,

while running "letsencrypt certonly --webroot --webroot-path
/var/www/html -d ..." to renew my certificate", letsencrypt showed me
the following pop up:

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Renewal configuration file /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/.keepdir is      │
│ broken. Skipping.                                                    │
│                                                                      │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

But this file is shipped within the package:

# dpkg -S /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/.keepdir
letsencrypt: /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/.keepdir

The file itself is empty and seems only to be there that the directory
doesn't get removed (which is likely not necessary in Debian packages):

# ls -l /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/.keepdir
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 20 17:30 /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/.keepdir

So I suggest to just not ship that file in the Debian package.

[Bug report written on a different system than the one where the bug
happened. Feel free to tell me if you need further details about the
installation.]