[Bug 2076930] Re: Removal request: python-certbot-dns-google

[Adrien Nader]

There is an argument for removing it though: we don't know if it's still
working. But what's worse: a non-working package, or a removed package
one? I'm not sure they're very different in this situation.

The main reason for removing packages was that they hold back other
changes due to autopkgtest regressions. With fewer packages involved due
to updates and britney hints, that's far less problematic now and I
don't see a hurry to remove this package.

It's worth mentioning that now that I look at this with a fresh mind, I
notice that I got a bit confused by how the certbot plugins are
organized. The dns-google plugin lives in the certbot git repository but
is then uploaded to pypi which serves as the upstream for the python-
certbot source package in Debian. Version numbers between certbot and
the plugins match but they don't absolutely have to.

As a consequence, it might be possible to cherry-pick
https://github.com/certbot/certbot/commit/b0d0a832772bc7747f65c2c2c90d0f790fa40f8a
. The python-certbot version is a bit older than that patch but
mismatches don't look very likely. The patch should apply with no major
modification to the current python-certbot-dns-google package (restrict
to the effective directory, remove tests (gah!), fix some offsets and
fix a conflict in setup.py).

My main concern at the moment is that I can't fully test the changes.

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