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[Bug 1414229] Re: python apt reporting Mint as generic distro, not as Ubuntu type distro

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From: Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 17:04:46 -0000
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What does 'lsb_release -irdc' return?

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Title:
  python apt reporting Mint as generic distro, not as  Ubuntu type
  distro

Status in python-apt package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Mint Rebecca, reproduce:
  python
  >>import aptsources.distro
  >>distro = aptsources.distro.get_distro()
  >>print distro
  <aptsources.distro.Distribution object at 0x7f4c22051c10>

  vs

  <aptsources.distro.UbuntuDistribution object at 0x7f8fe050ad10>

  on a Trusty.

  This becomes a huge issue when it comes to porting Ansible roles from Ubuntu to Mint, since PPAs do not work. Reference:
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/4587
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/9383

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