@mwhudson yes, I am working on the debdiffs and once ready I'll attach them here.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to lsb in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1761341 Title: lsb_release crashed with ValueError in <lambda>(): could not convert string to float: '6.06 LTS' Status in lsb package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in lsb source package in Bionic: Confirmed Status in lsb source package in Focal: Confirmed Status in lsb source package in Jammy: Confirmed Bug description: [Description] In some cases lsb_release script can crash with the following trace : Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 95, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 59, in main distinfo = lsb_release.get_distro_information() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 356, in get_distro_information distinfo = guess_debian_release() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 246, in guess_debian_release get_distro_info(distinfo['ID']) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 48, in get_distro_info RELEASES_ORDER.sort(key=lambda n: float(n[0])) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 48, in <lambda> RELEASES_ORDER.sort(key=lambda n: float(n[0])) ValueError: could not convert string to float: '6.06 LTS The root cause of this is that function get_distro_info() while parsing the '/usr/share/distro-info/ubuntu.csv' and expects to find a float at the beginning of each line, instead it find a string ("6.06 LTS"). There is a fix for this bug upstream: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lsb/-/commit/4b36f9d31c00233ea20415542633729ab3799e61 and is already in kinetic. [Test Case] The easier way to reproduce this bug is to hack /usr/share/pyshared/lsb_release.py file change the get_distro_info definition from def get_distro_info(origin='Debian'): to def get_distro_info(origin='Ubuntu'): and run $ lsb_release Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 25, in <module> import lsb_release File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 58, in <module> get_distro_info() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 48, in get_distro_info RELEASES_ORDER.sort(key=lambda n: float(n[0])) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 48, in <lambda> RELEASES_ORDER.sort(key=lambda n: float(n[0])) ValueError: could not convert string to float: '6.06 LTS' A detailed analysis on how this bug can happen in a real life scenario can be found in comment #3. [Regression Potential] The fix changes the way get_distro_info function parses the csv file and instead of expecting a float at the beginning of the line, it now expects a string and isolates the numerical part. The regression potential is small and would affect the behavior of lsb_release executable. [Other] Debian bug : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=980566 Fix : https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lsb/-/commit/4b36f9d31c00233ea20415542633729ab3799e61 Affected releases : Jammy, Focal, Bionic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lsb/+bug/1761341/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
