Re: LSB update and patch sites

[Matt Taggart <taggart@debian.org>]

Jeff Licquia writes...

> I've begun collecting updates to woody that fix LSB conformance issues,
> and my most recent reports have been made with the updates applied.  My
> current goal is to have a system with woody/sarge + security + my
> updates that can pass the LSB test suite.

Cool.

> Then, long-term, we can look
> at those updates and decide which are acceptable for inclusion in Debian
> and which aren't, and take any action needed to fix the unacceptable
> ones.
> 
> My updates take two forms:
> 
>  - Apt repositories, with source, at:
> 
> deb[-src] http://hackers.progeny.com/~licquia/lsb/apt/ woody/
> deb[-src] http://hackers.progeny.com/~licquia/lsb/apt/ sarge/
> 
>  - A patch repository, at:
> 
> http://hackers.progeny.com/~licquia/lsb/patches/

I have added links to the above to the tracking page I'm maintaining. Let me 
know if you want me to change it or add anything else.

> (Matt T: I don't mean to steal your thunder, but I needed this to make
> progress on my own work.

Hey no problem we need to make progress.

> If you'd like, we can work together on a
> combined set of LSB repositories, or I can defer to you when yours comes
> out, or whatever.  Contact me if you have questions.)

I think they will serve different purposes, yours currently has patched 
packages to improve runtime compliance, I'm planning on providing backports of 
the lsb* packages. I plan to update the lsbdev package this week in unstable 
and then I'll backport everything and setup a repository.

Thanks,

-- 
Matt Taggart
taggart@debian.org