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[Chad Smith <1780481@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Recently cloudinit added get_linux_distro to replace platform.dist() functionality.
The behavior returned a tuple on ubuntu that doens't match the platform.dist module.

python3 -c 'from platform import dist; from cloudinit.util import get_linux_distro; print(dist()); print(get_linux_distro())'
('Ubuntu', '16.04', 'xenial')
('ubuntu', '16.04', 'x86_64')


This breaks ntp configuration in cloud-init on xenial, which checks
(_name, _version, codename) = util.system_info()['dist']
if codename == "xenial" and not util.system_is_snappy():
...


Also CentOS 7 behavior:
[root@c71 ~]# python -c 'from platform import dist; from cloudinit.util import get_linux_distro; print(dist()); print(get_linux_distro())'
('centos', '7.5.1804', 'Core')
('centos', '7', 'x86_64')

Debian stretch:
root@debStretch:~# python -c 'from platform import dist; print(dist());'('debian', '9.4', '')


openSuse 42.3:
sles42:~ # python3 -c 'from platform import dist; print(dist());'
('SuSE', '42.3', 'x86_64')

** Affects: cloud-init
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Summary changed:

- ubuntu/centos: get_linux_distro has differnet behavior than  platform.dist
+ ubuntu/centos/debian: get_linux_distro has different behavior than platform.dist

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Title:
  ubuntu/centos/debian: get_linux_distro has different behavior than
  platform.dist

Status in cloud-init:
  New

Bug description:
  Recently cloudinit added get_linux_distro to replace platform.dist() functionality.
  The behavior returned a tuple on ubuntu that doens't match the platform.dist module.

  python3 -c 'from platform import dist; from cloudinit.util import get_linux_distro; print(dist()); print(get_linux_distro())'
  ('Ubuntu', '16.04', 'xenial')
  ('ubuntu', '16.04', 'x86_64')


  This breaks ntp configuration in cloud-init on xenial, which checks
  (_name, _version, codename) = util.system_info()['dist']
  if codename == "xenial" and not util.system_is_snappy():
  ...

  
  Also CentOS 7 behavior:
  [root@c71 ~]# python -c 'from platform import dist; from cloudinit.util import get_linux_distro; print(dist()); print(get_linux_distro())'
  ('centos', '7.5.1804', 'Core')
  ('centos', '7', 'x86_64')

  Debian stretch:
  root@debStretch:~# python -c 'from platform import dist; print(dist());'('debian', '9.4', '')

  
  openSuse 42.3:
  sles42:~ # python3 -c 'from platform import dist; print(dist());'
  ('SuSE', '42.3', 'x86_64')

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