With the version of the dist-upgrader from -proposed I was able to upgrade a system with distro-info installed via pip to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Unfortunately, as pip was uninstalled there isn't an easy to prove distro-info was installed.
bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ head -n10 /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log
2020-11-19 10:58:43,700 INFO Using config files '['./DistUpgrade.cfg.bionic']'
2020-11-19 10:58:43,700 INFO uname information: 'Linux clean-bionic-amd64 5.4.0-54-generic #60~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 6 17:25:16 UTC 2020
x86_64'
2020-11-19 10:58:43,716 INFO apt version: '1.6.12ubuntu0.1'
2020-11-19 10:58:43,716 INFO python version: '3.6.9 (default, Oct 8 2020, 12:12:24)
[GCC 8.4.0]'
2020-11-19 10:58:43,717 INFO release-upgrader version '20.04.29' started
2020-11-19 10:58:43,720 INFO locale: 'en_US' 'UTF-8'
2020-11-19 10:58:43,787 DEBUG Using 'DistUpgradeViewText' view
2020-11-19 10:58:43,827 DEBUG enable dpkg --force-overwrite
2020-11-19 10:58:43,854 DEBUG creating statefile: '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz'
bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS"
With the version of the dist-upgrader from -proposed I was able to upgrade a system with distro-info installed via pip to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Unfortunately, as pip was uninstalled there isn't an easy to prove distro-info was installed.
bdmurray@ clean-bionic- amd64:~ $ head -n10 /var/log/ dist-upgrade/ main.log e.cfg.bionic' ]' wText' view dist-upgrade/ apt-clone_ system_ state.tar. gz' clean-bionic- amd64:~ $ cat /etc/lsb-release RELEASE= 20.04 CODENAME= focal DESCRIPTION= "Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS"
2020-11-19 10:58:43,700 INFO Using config files '['./DistUpgrad
2020-11-19 10:58:43,700 INFO uname information: 'Linux clean-bionic-amd64 5.4.0-54-generic #60~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 6 17:25:16 UTC 2020
x86_64'
2020-11-19 10:58:43,716 INFO apt version: '1.6.12ubuntu0.1'
2020-11-19 10:58:43,716 INFO python version: '3.6.9 (default, Oct 8 2020, 12:12:24)
[GCC 8.4.0]'
2020-11-19 10:58:43,717 INFO release-upgrader version '20.04.29' started
2020-11-19 10:58:43,720 INFO locale: 'en_US' 'UTF-8'
2020-11-19 10:58:43,787 DEBUG Using 'DistUpgradeVie
2020-11-19 10:58:43,827 DEBUG enable dpkg --force-overwrite
2020-11-19 10:58:43,854 DEBUG creating statefile: '/var/log/
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