[DRE-maint] Bug#1108514: Vagrant gathered an unknown Ansible version: and falls back on the compatibility mode '1.8'

[Domenico Andreoli]

Package: vagrant
Version: 2.3.7+git20230731.5fc64cde+dfsg-3+b1
Severity: normal

Hi,

When I provison a VM with Ansible I get this output:

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 INFO subprocess: Starting process: ["/usr/bin/python3", "-c", "\"import importlib.metadata; print('ansible ' + importlib.metadata.version('ansible'))\""]
 INFO subprocess: Vagrant not running in installer, restoring original environment...
DEBUG subprocess: Selecting on IO
DEBUG subprocess: Waiting for process to exit. Remaining to timeout: 32000
DEBUG subprocess: Exit status: 0
 INFO interface: warn: Vagrant gathered an unknown Ansible version:


and falls back on the compatibility mode '1.8'.

Alternatively, the compatibility mode can be specified in your Vagrantfile:
https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/provisioning/ansible_common.html#compatibility_mode

Vagrant gathered an unknown Ansible version:


and falls back on the compatibility mode '1.8'.

Alternatively, the compatibility mode can be specified in your Vagrantfile:
https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/provisioning/ansible_common.html#compatibility_mode
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Such compatibility mode triggers later errors that are not part of this report.

There is an issue with the quoting of the in-line Python script that
is already fixed in the upstream repo, see PR [0]. I'll provide a patch
for your convenience.

It would be great to have this fixed before the release or at least in
a later update.

Thanks,
Dom

[0] https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/13234

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