[issue9514] platform.linux_distribution() under Ubuntu returns ('debian', 'squeeze/sid', '')

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

I think we'll start to use the lsb_release command if available and as suggested in issue1322.

Note that if you test the API, make sure that you use a Python build from sources available on python.org - the Debian and Ubuntu packagers tend to patch Python in their distributions (just like RedHat and others do) and we don't really want to hunt down bugs/problems that are not relevant to our code base.

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