Re: Bug#134658: ITP: lsb -- Linux Standard Base 1.1 core support package
Previously Stuart Anderson wrote:
> I think part of the reason for having added this was that this was an area
> where divergence was beginning to occur, and those participating at the time
> felt that we should specify the common practice to prevent further divergence.
I don't think divergence is a good reason for putting them into LSB:
if we don't spec those users at all it doesn't matter if they diverge
since people can't use them without violating the LSB, but more
interestingly it will also allow us to remove them completely.
> Unfortunately, we can't just remove it. It has been published as part
> of the standard. What we can do, however, is to mark that portion as
> "deprecated" and remove it in a future release.
What I plan to do for Debian is not install those users on new installs
but keep them around on existing systems. This will be done after the
woody release though so it won't affect anyone for the current
forseeable future.
Wichert.
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