[Bug 1535101] Re: Please remove python-letsencrypt and python-letsencrypt-apache from the archive.

[Peter Eckersley]

Hi Thomas,

I'm the upstream lead dev on the python client.  We have been working
closely with the Debian developers who are packaging our releases.  Our
current view is that it would be appropriate to package version 0.4.0 or
higher of the let's encrypt python client for a LTS release, and a
mistake to remove it from xenial.

Although it's true that rapid development is continuing, the client has
reached a point of solid beta stability and has in fact already issued
around 150,000 certs to Ubuntu 14.04 users in particular (!) We believe
that the experience those users would get from native OS packages is
much, much better than the one available from the "letsencrypt-auto"
script which we have deployed as a crude stand-in for native packages.

There will certainly be many updates to the client through the course of
the xenial support window, and our preference would therefore be for
Ubuntu to occasionally ship our releases as xenial updates (after an
appropriate amount of field testing, of course).  But if we had to live
with providing security fixes to 0.4.0 or a similar release for the long
term, we could even do that too.

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