Re: Status of the src:lsb package
[Posted September 30, 2015 by n8willis]
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| Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus-AT-rath.org> |
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| debian-devel-AT-lists.debian.org |
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| Re: Status of the src:lsb package |
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| Thu, 17 Sep 2015 08:46:24 -0700 |
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On Sep 17 2015, md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) wrote:
> On Sep 17, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> 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 actually benefit from it
> in the real world?
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.
Best,
-Nikolaus
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