Your message dated Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:37:39 +0100
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and subject line Fwd: Bug#1115980: lsb-base: Include lsb-base in the default
installation
has caused the Debian Bug report #1115980,
regarding lsb-base: Include lsb-base in the default installation
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Package: lsb-base
Version: 11.6
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where
appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
Tried to run my licensed program "Maple". License verification failed.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Waterloo Maple Software technical support said their license manager
(and most
other licensed programs' managers) will not work without lsb-base being
installed. They recommended installing it.
They also recommended
ln -s /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /lib64/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3
but this appears not to be necessary.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Maple's license verification started working.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I expected it to work without needing to install a package that is a
default
part of most distributions. It should be a default part of Debian
installations.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.12.43+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_DIE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lsb-base depends on:
ii sysvinit-utils 3.14-4
lsb-base recommends no packages.
lsb-base suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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version:11.6
Closing, per discussion with submitter.
Regards,
Matthew
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Subject: Re: Bug#1115980: lsb-base: Include lsb-base in the default
installation
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:11:43 -0700
From: Van Snyder <[email protected]>
To: Matthew Vernon <[email protected]>
You can close it. I've forwarded your explanation to Maple.
On Tue, 2025-09-23 at 11:53 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:
Hello,
On 22/09/2025 18:58, Van Snyder wrote:
Waterloo Maple Software technical support said their license manager
(and most
other licensed programs' managers) will not work without lsb-base being
installed. They recommended installing it.
The "lsb-base" command doesn't exist in Debian, and hasn't for years
now, as LSB itself is obsolete - bullseye (old-old-stable), for example,
didn't have such a command. AFAICT Ubuntu has likewise not had this
command since about 2015.
They also recommended
ln -s /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /lib64/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3
Definitely don't do that - if a library needs a different soname of that
library, trying to fake that with a symlink will just result in crashes
and confusing bugs.
I think Maple's install instructions are under-tested - I see they
say[0] to install lsb-core and lsb-base on Ubuntu 24.04, but lsb-core
doesn't exist in 24.04 (it was last shipped in 22.04).
In short, this is a problem with Maple, I'm afraid, not Debian (nor
Ubuntu); I propose to close this bug report unless you think I've missed
something important?
Regards,
Matthew
[0]
https://www.maplesoft.com/support/install/2025/Maple/Install.html#MapleInstallGuide_SysReq
<https://www.maplesoft.com/support/install/2025/Maple/Install.html#MapleInstallGuide_SysReq>
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