Bug#1014203: azure-cli: API version 2021-08-01 does not have operation group 'network_interfaces'

[Nye Liu]

Package: azure-cli
Version: 2.37.0-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

* What led up to the situation?

installed

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?

az vm list-ip-addresses

* What was the outcome of this action?

https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/23094

The command failed with an unexpected error. Here is the traceback:
API version 2021-08-01 does not have operation group 'network_interfaces'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/knack/cli.py", line 231, in invoke
cmd_result = self.invocation.execute(args)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 663, in execute
raise ex
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 726, in _run_jobs_serially
results.append(self._run_job(expanded_arg, cmd_copy))
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 697, in _run_job
result = cmd_copy(params)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 333, in __call__
return self.handler(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/command_operation.py", line 121, in handler
return op(**command_args)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/azure/cli/command_modules/vm/custom.py", line 1281, in list_vm_ip_addresses
nics = network_client.network_interfaces.list_all()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/azure/mgmt/network/_network_management_client.py", line 4475, in network_interfaces
raise ValueError("API version {} does not have operation group 'network_interfaces'".format(api_version))
ValueError: API version 2021-08-01 does not have operation group 'network_interfaces'

* What outcome did you expect instead?

Normal az output

* Workaround

changing to

2.37.0-1~focal 500
500 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli focal/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

resolves it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.8.3-x86_64-linode137 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages azure-cli depends on:
ii python3 3.10.4-1+b1
ii python3-azure-cli 2.37.0-2

azure-cli recommends no packages.

azure-cli suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

[Nye Liu]

unattended upgrades overwrites anything installed from the microsoft
package repo.


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[Nye Liu]

https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/19640#issuecomment-1227878091

1. Remove the alias `azure-cli` from https://packages.debian.org/sid/azure-cli, and only use the name `python3-azure-cli` so that it can be distinguished from Microsoft's `azure-cli`.

2. Pull down the package `azure-cli` from Debian/Ubuntu repo https://packages.debian.org/sid/azure-cli.

3. Force installing from `packages.microsoft.com`: [{Packaging} Prioritize official package over the dist one #20557](https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/pull/20557)