FWIW, it also broke local scripts on my hosts: I switch between build envs depending on lsb-release output. Until know it would look at sources.list to gather what I was running (implementation of which was painfully slow, but that's another matter); now it reports lenny when I run unstable/sid and it's a pain. So +1 for keeping lsb-release working all the time; thanks! -- Loïc Minier