/etc/lsb-release has incorrect DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION

[Tomas Cassidy]

I just upgraded from 14.04 to 14.10 and lsb_release is showing an incorrect description. I'm seeing the same problem in the lsb-release file from "apt-get source base-files".

$ lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch)

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=utopic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch)"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: base-files 7.2ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-22.29-generic 3.16.4
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Oct 24 20:03:54 2014
Dependencies:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-22 (185 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: base-files
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-24 (0 days ago)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

You don't seem to have the latest version of the base-files package.

bdmurray@blacklightning:~/Documents/gtd$ lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 14.10
bdmurray@blacklightning:~/Documents/gtd$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=utopic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.10"
bdmurray@blacklightning:~/Documents/gtd$ apt-cache policy base-files
base-files:
  Installed: 7.2ubuntu7
  Candidate: 7.2ubuntu7
  Version table:
 *** 7.2ubuntu7 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Tomas Cassidy (tomas-cassidy)]

Thanks. Looks like http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ is out of date. I will contact AARNet to get it updated.