ansible/ansible-modules-core — pull request #419 by hfinucane (2014-12-01 19:25:07+00:00)
Title: Add lucid compatibility

This has been working OK for me for a while on precise & lucid, and I'm firing off this pull request in case others would like it.

There was a brief discussion on the mailing list, and there was cautious acceptance of it.

I do not believe trusty's copy of `python-apt` changed the API again, although I don't test much there.

In some ways, I think the best solution would be to drop `python-apt`, and vendor the dpkg parsing code (it's gpl2+). The magic 'install python-apt under the hood' thing seems a little scary to me, and the validation code is more strict than I would like (See my other recent apt-related pull requests).