Comment 26 for bug 1597466

This bug still exists in Ubuntu 19.04/disco:

# apt install --reinstall base-files
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 60.1 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco/main amd64 base-files amd64 10.1ubuntu8 [60.1 kB]
Fetched 60.1 kB in 0s (568 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 739533 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../base-files_10.1ubuntu8_amd64.deb ...
Warning: Stopping motd-news.service, but it can still be activated by:
  motd-news.timer
Unpacking base-files (10.1ubuntu8) over (10.1ubuntu8) ...
Setting up base-files (10.1ubuntu8) ...
motd-news.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
Processing triggers for cracklib-runtime (2.9.6-2) ...
Processing triggers for plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text (0.9.4-1ubuntu1) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for plymouth-theme-kubuntu-text (1:19.04ubuntu4) ...
dpkg: warning: version '/etc/lsb-release' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit