Re: Bug#680184: lsb-release appears to be uninstallable on mips, causes FTBFS

On 07/04/2012 04:23 AM, Thibaut Paumard wrote:

> python2.7 is in the "BD-uninstalable" state since 2 days apparently because the
> buildd sees lsb-release as uninstallable:
> 
> "Dependency installability problem for python2.7 on mips:
>   python2.7 (= 2.7.3-1) build-depends on one of:
>   - lsb-release (= 4.1+Debian7)"
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=python2.7&suite=sid
> 
> I am of course not sure whether the problem lies actually within the lsb-
> release package. python2.7 seems to have failed building on mips previously
> anyway.

Without directly having a bearing on this bug, a reminder that
lsb_release provides a query mechanism which, among other things,
indicates the LSB compliance status of the system on which it is
executed. mips architecture is not one of the ones for which an LSB
specification exists, so the answer should never be a positive one on mips.