Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <o...@debian.org> writes: > This has existed in a (now distant) past as the "Linux Distribution > Checker", in the context of the Linux Standard Base, that Debian and > Ubuntu stopped caring about in late 2015.
Ah, yes, thank you, that makes sense. > I'm not aware of more recent efforts in that direction; but it's an > understatement to say the landscape has changed quite a bit since: > containers, sandbox environments (and others) have forever changed the > way we think about distributing binary executable. LSB had that > ambition, and failed. While that is certainly true, I feel like the pendulum may be swinging back in a slightly different way with Go and Rust popularizing the idea that you should be able to copy around a binary and run it on any Linux system with a compatible architecture. This is a much smaller problem than LSB was trying to solve since LSB was trying to standardize things like the shared library ABI and SONAMEs, which Go and Rust intentionally avoid with static linking. But they do rely very deeply on every system being able to execute binaries built to the Linux ABI and glibc. (I realize that's a different question than the one discussed in this thread.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
