Le mercredi, 10 juillet 2013 20.20:21, Steve Langasek a écrit : > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 02:10:22AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > (It's probably also worth noting that Debian does not claim LSB > > compliance and the description of that Debian package states, > > rather prominently: "The intent of this package is to provide a > > best current practice way of installing and running LSB packages > > on Debian GNU/Linux. Its presence does not imply that Debian > > fully complies with the Linux Standard Base, and should not be > > construed as a statement that Debian is LSB-compliant." So, > > really, it's kind of hard to see what's notably egregious about > > this.) > > Well, I think that package description is silly in its lawyeresque > weaselness. The raison d'être of the package is to provide an > LSB-compliant layer, which is what it means to support installing > and running LSB packages. I don't see any reason the package > description should have this long disclaimer about the possibility > of bugs in the implementation.
The core of what this phrasing [0] conveys is "this package doesn't imply that Debian is LSB-compliant but is our best-effort at it"; I would welcome any patch in that direction, if possible acked by Jeff/LSB. Cheers, OdyX [0] Which apparently has been that was at least since 2002 for the LSB 1.1.0-11 package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
