[Python-modules-team] Bug#851685: awscli impossible version requirements

[Edwin Taylor]

Package: awscli
Version: 1.11.13-1

After upgrading to 1.11.13-1, the aws command has been failing like this:

$ aws ec2 describe-instances
'AWSHTTPSConnection' object has no attribute 'ssl_context'

To work around this, I downgraded to version 1.4.2, but this produced 
the following output:

$ aws --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/aws", line 15, in <module>
     import awscli.clidriver
   File "/usr/share/awscli/awscli/clidriver.py", line 33, in <module>
     from awscli.arguments import CustomArgument
   File "/usr/share/awscli/awscli/arguments.py", line 42, in <module>
     from botocore.parameters import ListParameter, StructParameter
ImportError: No module named 'botocore.parameters'

The final workaround I found was to edit the file /usr/bin/aws and 
remove the "3" from the first line "#!/usr/bin/python3".  This allowed 
the aws command to work.

I may have been using an unusual or unsupported mixture of package 
versions, as I haven't seen anyone else report the "ssl_context" bug, 
but I thought I would document this problem here for the record, along 
with my workaround.  Also for the record, here are the versions of some 
other packages I have installed:

python-bcdoc    0.12.2-1
python-botocore    0.62.0-1
python3-bcdoc    0.12.2-1
python3-botocore    1.4.70-1
python-colorama    0.3.2-1
python3-colorama    0.3.7-1
python-pyasn1    0.1.7-1
python3-pyasn1    0.1.9-2
python-rsa    3.1.4-1+deb8u1
python3-rsa    3.1.4-1+deb8u1
python    2.7.13-1
python3    3.4.2-2

Thank you for packaging this software, and I hope the information I have 
provided is helpful for reproducing the bug, or at least helps people 
work around it.


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