ubiquity release name not set correctly

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

installing latest iso twice in a row in virtualbox, it seems there are two minor issues:

1. ubiquity says installed previously-ubiquity-installed Puredyne is Ubuntu 9.10 (9.10)
2. ubiquity says it will replace that installation with (empty string)

see attached screenshot

[Aymeric Mansoux (aymeric)]

1. I don't think we can fix that. After all it is Ubuntu that is installed. I tried to change the LSB info (from which ubiquity and co reads their stuff) to Puredyne during the LABoral sprint and ubiquity was not working anymore. It was trying to download packages for a distro called Puredyne on the Ubuntu mirrors, instead of downloading the Ubuntu deb packages ...

2. maybe incomplete ubiquity config?

[danstowell (danstowell)]

Clue: I grepped for the string shown in the screenshot, "Where do you want to put" - in our case followed by a blank space - and found the string "Where do you want to put Ubuntu?" given as a translateable string in the xml file /usr/share/ubiquity/gtk/stepPartAuto.ui - so it means that ubiq is doing a replace on the string "Ubuntu" somewhere?

[danstowell (danstowell)]

Found it. I've committed a patch for /usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/misc.py which sets the name to us