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[Walter Lapchynski <wxl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't disagree with you, but I'm saying that Ubuntu is a unique
animal. Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS are all sort of separate bedfellows,
much in the way that Debian, Ubuntu and Mint are. But none of the above
*except* Ubuntu has all these different flavors. Still, Ubuntu is
Ubuntu. Kubuntu is Ubuntu, Lubuntu is Ubuntu, Snappy Core is Ubuntu,
etc. So it makes sense for lsb_release to show Ubuntu and not all these
others more specific variations.

The reason I mentioned the odd case of changing desktop environments is
because it happens all the time. People who started out with Ubuntu come
crawling over to #lubuntu for help because in their mind, they have
Lubuntu. That's why I brought that up. It's important to consider such
ideas holistically and make changes that work generally, especially when
we're talking about something that ultimately affects every single
flavor. For that matter, what other infrastructure is available to
ensure that this is updated? I have no clue, so I'd be concerned about
messing with it.

All I'm saying is this is the way it's been for a long time. Maybe
Kubuntu and Xubuntu do it differently, but that's not been my experience
(see xubuntu-default-settings and kubuntu-settings). That is why it's
Won't Fix. Maybe it would be better to call it an Opinion (done).

I will say that it appears lsb_release gets its info from /etc/lsb-
release so potentially this could be maintained separately. With that, I
would talk to the GRUB team and see what they think about the
implications of such a thing. Needless to say, since this is not a
ubiquity bug, I'm refiling it against grub2.

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Won't Fix => Opinion

** Package changed: ubiquity (Ubuntu) => grub2 (Ubuntu)

** Summary changed:

- After installing Lubuntu from USB stick, GRUB mistakenly lists Lubuntu as Ubuntu
+ GRUB shows "Ubuntu" rather than flavor name

** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Package changed: grub2 (Ubuntu) => lsb (Ubuntu)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409209

Title:
  GRUB shows "Ubuntu" rather than flavor name

Status in lsb package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  I installed Lubuntu 15.04 Vervet (Live image 2015-01-09) as a Manual
  installation (choosing "Something else...") to install the test
  Lubuntu alongside a machine that already has Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and
  Windows 7.

  After installation, Lubuntu was mistakenly listed as "Ubuntu" in the
  GRUB menu. The existing Ubuntu installation, which had formerly been
  labeled as "Ubuntu" was now (accurately) labeled as Ubuntu 14.04.

  To reproduce:

  Install Lubuntu alongside other existing operating systems using the
  "Something else..." option and configuring your partitions in the
  ubiquity installer.

  Expected result:

  Grub lists your new installation as "Lubuntu" and the other operating
  systems as their correct names.

  Actual result:

  Grub lists my new lubuntu installation as "Ubuntu" (only) and the
  other operating systems correctly (for me, Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS and
  Windows 7).

  Hardware profile: https://gist.github.com/e4e4d9d3e41ccf5c27c7

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