Bug#637039: Re: lsb-release: parse_apt_policy in lsb_release.py fails

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> wrote:
> tags 637039 +unreproducible +moreinfo
> thanks

>>> ok it's not exactly a patch but close:
>>> policy = commands.getoutput('LANG=C apt-cache policy 2>/dev/null')
>>>
>>> should be:
>>> policy = commands.getoutput('LANG=C apt-cache policy 2&>/dev/null')
>>>
>>> in lsb_release.py parse_apt_policy function
>>
>>  ok, yep, right, i know i know - this is completely wrong :)  there's
>> something else going belly-up - shown here:
>
> lsb_release.py has seen various improvements before the upload of lsb
> 3.2+Debian29; could you please try to reproduce your bug with
> lsb-release=3.2+Debian29 currently available in unstable ?

 ahh, didier, many apologies, this was such a long time ago, i can't
remember what i was doing which triggered the bug! :)

l.