dependencies on lsb-release should be reevaluated

Bug #1662619 reported by Brian Murray
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apport (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned
Zesty
Won't Fix
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

apport has a build-dep and python[3]-apport depends on lsb-release, however apport/packaging.py only uses this as a fallback after looking at /etc/os-release.

That being said backends/packaging-apt-dpkg.py contains a get_distro_codename function which doesn't use /etc/os-release.

Tags: zesty
tags: added: zesty
Changed in apport (Ubuntu Zesty):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
importance: Medium → Low
Changed in apport (Ubuntu Zesty):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
tags: added: rls-aa-incoming
tags: removed: rls-aa-incoming
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