With the version of the dist-upgrader from -proposed I was able to upgrade a system with distro-info installed via pip to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Unfortunately, as pip was uninstalled there isn't an easy to prove distro-info was installed.
bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ head -n10 /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log 2020-11-19 10:58:43,700 INFO Using config files '['./DistUpgrade.cfg.bionic']' 2020-11-19 10:58:43,700 INFO uname information: 'Linux clean-bionic-amd64 5.4.0-54-generic #60~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 6 17:25:16 UTC 2020 x86_64' 2020-11-19 10:58:43,716 INFO apt version: '1.6.12ubuntu0.1' 2020-11-19 10:58:43,716 INFO python version: '3.6.9 (default, Oct 8 2020, 12:12:24) [GCC 8.4.0]' 2020-11-19 10:58:43,717 INFO release-upgrader version '20.04.29' started 2020-11-19 10:58:43,720 INFO locale: 'en_US' 'UTF-8' 2020-11-19 10:58:43,787 DEBUG Using 'DistUpgradeViewText' view 2020-11-19 10:58:43,827 DEBUG enable dpkg --force-overwrite 2020-11-19 10:58:43,854 DEBUG creating statefile: '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz' bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS" ** Tags removed: verification-needed-focal ** Tags added: verification-done-focal -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1848829 Title: distribution upgrade failed due pip install of distro-info To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1848829/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
