Control: block 894209 by 896640

On 2018-04-20, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2018-03-27, Michael Firth wrote:
>> When running 'build-simple-cdd' with the '--dist' option on Debian
>> Stretch, the resulting ISO file has the version number of the host
>> Debian system, not the built system.
> ...
>> Example invocation:
>> $ build-simple-cdd --dist jessie
>>
>> The expected CD images should be version 8.10, which is the latest
>> Jessie release, but instead the file created is called:
>>
>> debian-9.4-amd64-CD-1.iso

Looks like the package distro-info-data includes a .csv file that could
be used to check the codename and set the correct version by default,
only falling back to the running system version if no other version was
found.

The distro-info utilities and libraries don't quite handle querying for
this information, even though all the data is there:

  https://bugs.debian.org/896640


live well,
  vagrant

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