Re: real LSB compliance
>>"Sam" == Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> writes:
Sam> First I suspect that it is only for rc.d links. Secondly, why are we
Sam> supporting LSB if not for our users?
If the product is free software, we shall already have decent,
conforming packaging for it. Now, if you are talking about non-free
software, that can never actually be part od Debian, well, then. How
much effort do we really want to spend here? (Were we not already
discussing throwing out non-free from our archive sites?)
Sam> If LSB is actually useful to our users, and I believe that if we
Sam> participate in future revisions of the spec it may well be very
Sam> good for our users, then they will likely want LSB packages to
Sam> fit well into the Debian architecture. Having init.d script
Sam> names mangled and placed in a special directory would
Sam> annoy me as a user; I would rather see Debian participate in the
Sam> registry.
While I agree with the sentiments in general, I have a major
caveat: that we do not sacrifice quality of implementation in order
to facilitate non free software. So any registry would only be a
recommendation for developers, anyway, and we should conform, where
feasible.
Sam> Also, consider that we do not want to make LSB packages be forced into
Sam> being a bag on the side of Debian or any other distribution. If a
Sam> software author can get sufficiently better integration by packaging
Sam> directly for Redhat than for LSB, then they may very well do so. If
Sam> this happens a lot, we will have done our users a disservice by
Sam> helping to make LSB a sufficiently unattractive option that software
Sam> is not available for LSB.
I see you are against the removal of non free from
Debian. However, the issue is yet undecided (i'll need to look and
see of the people devicing the new voting protocols have done so, and
see where the vote on that actually goes)
manoj
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