Package: certbot
Version: 1.18.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Thank you very much for generously sharing your
time and skill.


It's not a crisis, but I humbly suggest improving
a certain error message to lead users to faster
fixes.

When I do

    root$ certbot certonly --apache --manual --dry-run 

certbot complains with

    Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
    Too many flags setting configurators/installers/authenticators 'apache' -> 
'manual'
    Ask for help or search for solutions at https://community.letsencrypt.org. 
See the logfile /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log or re-run Certbot with -v 
for more details.

The fix appears to be

    root$ certbot certonly -i apache -a manual --dry-run


Maybe certbot's error message could be improved from

    Too many flags setting configurators/installers/authenticators 'apache' -> 
'manual'

to something more helpful like

    Try rep[acing "--apache --manual" with "-i apache -a manual".


So it is said.

So it is done.

Reporting bugs may be fun, but

thanking maintainers is number one!

Thanks,
Kingsley


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages certbot depends on:
ii  cdebconf [debconf-2.0]  0.253
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.74
ii  python3-certbot         1.18.0-1
pn  python3:any             <none>

certbot recommends no packages.

Versions of packages certbot suggests:
pn  python-certbot-doc      <none>
ii  python3-certbot-apache  1.18.0-1
pn  python3-certbot-nginx   <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/letsencrypt/cli.ini changed [not included]

-- debconf information excluded

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