Re: Status of the src:lsb package

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

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

-- 
GPG encrypted emails preferred. Key id: 0xD113FCAC3C4E599F
Fingerprint: ED31 791B 2C5C 1613 AF38 8B8A D113 FCAC 3C4E 599F

             »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.«