Could not find imported module support code about ansible-collection

[NickUfer]

Hey, sorry for that. The respawn import and the runtime requirements are a bug. The respawn is actually not required. I will release a fix for that in some hours 👍🏼

[NickUfer]

The problem is fixed in the newest version (1.2.1) ready to download.

[Kariton]

I think there it is (not):

# python3
Python 3.6.8 (default, Aug 12 2021, 07:06:15)
[GCC 8.4.1 20200928 (Red Hat 8.4.1-1)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from ansible.module_utils.common.respawn import probe_interpreters_for_module
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ansible.module_utils.common.respawn'

# ls /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible/module_utils/common/
_collections_compat.py
collections.py
dict_transformations.py
file.py
__init__.py
_json_compat.py
json.py
network.py
parameters.py
process.py
__pycache__
removed.py
sys_info.py
text  _utils.py
validation.py

[Kariton]

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_collections_shared.html#leveraging-optional-module-utilities-in-collections

For example, the ansible.module_utils.common.respawn package is only available in Ansible 2.11 and higher. The following module code would fail during the payload build on Ansible 2.10 or earlier (as the requested Python module does not exist, and is not wrapped in a block to signal to the payload builder that it can be omitted from the module payload).

try:
    from ansible.module_utils.common.respawn import respawn_module
except ImportError:
    respawn_module = None
...
if needs_respawn:
    if respawn_module:
        respawn_module(target)
    else:
        module.fail_json('respawn is not available in Ansible < 2.11, ensure that foopkg is installed')

Why was i allowed to install this collection...

I just saw your meta/runtime.yml - maybe it needs to be meta/main.yml?

[Kariton]

Proxy is needed as expected - Ansible 2.11 did the trick.

I will let this issue open for now - feel free to close.