Wookey: what about using dpkg-vendor instead of lsb-release ? dpkg-
vendor is in dpkg-dev and will read data from /etc/dpkg/origins/default
and will tell you on which Debian-derivative you are building. Agreed,
dpkg-dev is Debian-derivatives-specific, but still...
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You received this bug
I came up on it in the context of making build chroots. They don't need
python installed even on Ubuntu, and nothing causes it to be there until
you install lsb-release. And as it has to be unpacked for every build
it's good to keep the size/bloat down.
I assume that python is still listed in
