Bug#951651: lsb_release does not check for existence of "apt-cache"

Mark Hindley leepen at debian.org
Fri May 6 08:43:14 BST 2022


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Daniel,

Thanks for this and sorry for the slowness.

I am working on an update for lsb_release and have picked this up.

My proposed fix is attached. As far as I can see it is safe to continue if
apt-cache is not available and lsb_release will try other options.

Any comments?

Thanks

Mark
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