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📛 NAME

lsb_release

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
Get distribution information	get_distro_information()	Returns a tuple with distributor ID, description, release, and codename
Guess Debian release from apt sources	guess_release_from_apt()	Determines the release based on APT repository configuration
Look up codename for a release	lookup_codename('11')	Maps a release number to its codename (e.g., 'bullseye')
Compare two releases	compare_release('11', '10')	Compares two Debian release identifiers
Check if LSB modules are installed	check_modules_installed()	Verifies that required LSB packages are present (Debian‑specific)

📝 DESCRIPTION

# LSB release detection module for Debian

# (C) 2005-10 Chris Lawrence <lawrencc AT debian.org>

# (C) 2018 Didier Raboud <odyx AT debian.org>

🔧 FUNCTIONS

• check_modules_installed() — This is Debian‑specific at present
• compare_release(x, y)
• get_distro_info(origin='Debian')
• get_distro_information()
• get_os_release() — Whatever is guessed above can be overridden in /usr/lib/os‑release by derivatives
• guess_debian_release()
• guess_release_from_apt(origin='Debian', component='main', ignoresuites='experimental', label='Debian', alternate_olabels={'Debian Ports': ('ftp.ports.debian.org', 'ftp.debian-ports.org')})
• lookup_codename(release, unknown=None)
• parse_apt_policy()
• parse_policy_line(data)
• release_index(x)
• test()
• valid_lsb_versions(version, module)

📊 DATA

• PACKAGES = 'lsb-core lsb-cxx lsb-graphics lsb-desktop lsb-languages ls...'
• RELEASES_ORDER = ['buzz', 'rex', 'bo', 'hamm', 'slink', 'potato', 'woo...']
• RELEASE_CODENAME_LOOKUP = {'1.1': 'buzz', '1.2': 'rex', '1.3': 'bo', '...'}
• TESTING_CODENAME = 'unknown.new.testing'
• longnames = {'a': 'suite', 'c': 'component', 'l': 'label', 'o': 'origi...'}
• modnamere = re.compile('lsb-(?P<module>[a-z0-9]+)-(?P<arch>[^ ]+)(?: \\...')
• print_function = _Feature((2, 6, 0, 'alpha', 2), (3, 0, 0, 'alpha', 0)...)

📁 FILE

/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py

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