Re: Status of the src:lsb package (was: Debian LSB compliance)

2015-09-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 17, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > This change landed in stretch on September 14. and is de facto the > "outright giving up" of LSB support for Debian, from stretch onwards. As Is there any point in (formally?) maintaining LSB compatibility? Is there any proprietary application that does

Status of the src:lsb package (was: Debian LSB compliance)

2015-09-17 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi all, It is time for an update about the lsb source package status, especially as a quite important change landed in testing. After the discussion [0] about these changes back in July (on both debian-lsb@ and debian-devel@), I have uploaded src:lsb 9.20150826 to unstable, building no LSB com

Re: Debian LSB compliance

2015-07-08 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Given > a) the work that certifying Debian would take; > b) the interest in having Debian be certified (I am yet to see any of >that interest); > c) the marginal interest by application vendors for the LSB; > > I'm leaning towards outright giving up. Agreed, spen

Re: Debian LSB compliance

2015-07-08 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 3 juillet 2015, 13.20:08 Mats Wichmann a écrit : > On 07/03/15 07:28, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > The crux of the issue is, I think, whether this whole game is worth > > the work: I am yet to hear about software distribution happening > > through LSB packages [4]. There are only _8

Re: Debian LSB compliance

2015-07-03 Thread Mats Wichmann
On 07/03/15 07:28, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > We're also not checking this because the LSB compatibility of > Debian releases has never been a topic and I don't see anyone > asking a library maintainer to stay at an older version and/or > maintain a patch series to keep this compatibility [2].

Debian LSB compliance (was: Re: Standard-producing bodies and Debian)

2015-07-03 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Gunnar, just jumping on one specific point, sorry to hijack the thread… (Reply-To set to debian-lsb, please followup there…) tl;dr: proposal to shrink src:lsb to only produce lsb-base and lsb- release Le jeudi, 2 juillet 2015, 09.15:12 Gunnar Wolf a écrit : > But then I realized I was lying.