On 07/03/15 07:28, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > We're also not checking this because the LSB compatibility of > Debian releases has never been a topic and I don't see anyone > asking a library maintainer to stay at an older version and/or > maintain a patch series to keep this compatibility [2]. By the way, > the only organism that I know is regularly checking Debian's LSB > compatibility, is the Linux Foundation [3]. They haven't tried > Jessie yet apparently. > > (There _exists_ a Distribution Checker, but last I looked, it was > an intense headache to setup.) > > The crux of the issue is, I think, whether this whole game is worth > the work: I am yet to hear about software distribution happening > through LSB packages [4]. There are only _8_ applications by 6 > companies on the LSB certified applications list [5], of which only > one is against LSB >= 4. Amongst the distributions, RHEL 7.0 is > LSB4.1, and Oracle 6, RHEL 6.0 and Ubuntu 9.04 are LSB 4. > > As a data point, I've just noticed that the Linux Foundation issued > LSB 5.0 and FHS 3.0 [6] just yesterday. But that doesn't change > the arguments, I think.
The current distribution checker is actually quite easy to set up, it's just a package to install and off you go, answer a few questions through a web interface. Should you have the patience to fire off 10+ hours of tests and then want to look at them. You would need that for "compliance" which has never directly been a Debian goal, as you say. To answer the level of questions you bring up (existence of required libs/interfaces/commands) you actually need just two simple tools - lsb-libchk and lsb-cmdchk. LSB has a repository which contains these at http://ftp.linuxbase.org/pub/lsb/repositories/debian/pkgs-5.0/ (or 4.1, or...) This is not to talk you out of your arguments, which make plenty of sens, just to inform that the basic level of checking is pretty simple. -- mats -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5596e068.1000...@wichmann.us