New issue 2456: platform.linux_distribution() returns the wrong value on ubuntu
https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/issues/2456/platformlinux_distribution-returns-the
Daniele Rolando:
```
#!bash
>> cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS"
>> cat /etc/debian_version
jessie/sid
>> pypy -c "import platform; print platform.linux_distribution()"
('debian', 'jessie/sid', '')
>> python -c "import platform; print(platform.linux_distribution())"
('Ubuntu', '14.04', 'trusty')
```
The problem is in this loop:
[lib-python/2.7/platform.py:323](https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/src/53bc748f8ebb8c098f37bf6e290b3fba1e69926b/lib-python/2.7/platform.py?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default#platform.py-323)
We get the distribution from the first matching file we encounter in the loop,
/etc/debian_version in this case, while we should be reading it from
/etc/lsb-release which is more trustworthy.
We should give some priority to these files instead of simply reading the first
one.
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