New submission from Yann Cointepas:
The distribution name returned by platform.dist() depends on the order
of os.path.listdir( '/etc' ). It selects the first file matching the
regex r'(\w+)[-_](release|version)' and takes part of the file name
(i.e. matchResult.groups()[0])
Yann Cointepas added the comment:
I can easily do the patch to ignore symlinks and /etc/lsb-release but I am
not sure of the appropriate way to look for lsb_update command, is
distutils.spawn.find_executable( 'lsb_release' ) ok ?
If you need the patch earlier than begining of next
Yann Cointepas added the comment:
I am writing a patch but I have a few questions:
1) There are at most three places where the distribution name can be
found. What is the priority order to select only one name ?
The three places are:
a) Inside the /etc/lsb-release file
b) In the name of the
