certbot renew --dry-run does not execute renewal-hooks/deploy/ scripts

[wayneworkman]

My operating system is (include version):

Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-18-cloud-amd64
certbot 2.1.0

I installed Certbot with (snap, OS package manager, pip, certbot-auto, etc):

apt-get -y install certbot python3-certbot-nginx

I ran this command and it produced this output:

certbot renew  --dry-run --no-random-sleep-on-renew

Simulation successfully ran, but the script within /etc/letsencrypt/renewal-hooks/deploy/ directory did not run. I know they did not run because my system did not reboot (ssh connection was not terminated like a reboot would cause).

root@mail:~# ls -laht /etc/letsencrypt/renewal-hooks/deploy/reboot.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28 Mar 23 16:39 /etc/letsencrypt/renewal-hooks/deploy/reboot.sh
root@mail:~# 
root@mail:~# cat /etc/letsencrypt/renewal-hooks/deploy/reboot.sh
#!/bin/bash

/sbin/reboot

Certbot's behavior differed from what I expected because:

An actual renewal runs the scripts within the /etc/letsencrypt/renewal-hooks/deploy/ but the --dry-run command that I needed to ensure things were completely working did not run the scripts. I need the --dry-run to be a full dry run for testing purposes.

[osirisinferi]

Would the --run-deploy-hooks option suffice?