Ceph

platform.linux_distribution() is deprecated, so we should stop using it. Notably it uses /etc/SuSE-release on SUSE systems, and the latest SUSE versions don't ship this file; instead they ship /etc/os-release, which platform.linux_distribution() doesn't know about, so it returns ('','','').

AFAICT, platform.linux_distribution() is currently used by ceph-detect-init, which in turn is used by ceph-disk. If ceph-detect-init can't determine the distro because it sees ('','',''), this results in ceph-disk always tagging the init system as sysvinit.

There are also platform.linux_distribution() invocations in qa/workunits/ceph-disk/ceph-disk-no-lockbox and src/ceph-disk/ceph_disk/main.py, but they look like dead code to me.

See also bug #18141