On Sep 23 2015, Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net> wrote:
> On 2015-09-23 14:21, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
>> Hi Nikolaus,
>>
>> Le jeudi, 17 septembre 2015, 09.27:56 Nikolaus Rath a écrit :
>> > On Sep 17 2015, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <o...@debian.org> wrote:
>> > > Le jeudi, 17 septembre 2015, 08.46:24 Nikolaus Rath a écrit :
>> > >> I don't know about formal LSB compatibility, but there are several
>> > >> proprietary applications that require nothing but the
>> > >> /{lib,lib64}/ld-lsb.so* symlinks to work properly under Debian. So
>> > >> it would be great if they could be preserved.
>> > >
>> > > FYI, this used to be in lsb-core, and is to be found in the package
>> > > VCS history.
>> > >
>> > > I will not work towards this, but feel free to adopt the package and
>> > > upload an updated version.
>> >
>> > I'm only a DM and having to search for a fresh sponsor for every
>> > upload is very frustrating. Would you be generally available to
>> > sponsor my uploads (ideallyl until you feel comfortable to give me
>> > upload privileges)?
>>
>> Given that I'm (so far) convinced that _not_ providing the lsb packages
>> at all is the correct thing to do for Debian, I'd prefer if another DD
>> could sponsor any upload of src:lsb re-introducing these (and drop me
>> from Uploaders).
>>
>> That said, as for the technical issue at hand, iff these symlinks [0]
>> are useful to make Debian relevant for (some) non-free software out
>> there, couldn't they be handled directly by libc6 on the various
>> architectures ?
>>
>> src:eglibc maintainers: opinions ?
>
> I am personally not very thrilled about that idea, because I don't think
> the LSB compatibility should be handled at each package level, even if
> it looks technically easier to do that.
>
> That said if someone is motivated to provide a patch and maintain that
> part in the future, I guess we can accept that.
I will probably provide a patch the next time I encounter an application
that needs it.
Thanks,
-Nikolaus
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