On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 04:04:33PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > While upgrading a system to Beowulf, I noticed this in the changelogs. > Is this one of those "it was fizzling out anyway so no big deal" things, or > another policy change by Debian ? Not really bothered, just curious.
LSB was a project by some RPM-based distributions, and was never strongly followed by Debian. And, it's dead now -- the last upstream release was on June 3, 2015. > > lsb (9.20150826) unstable; urgency=low > > > > This update drops all lsb-* compatibility packages, and is therefore an > > abandon of the pursuit of LSB compatibility for Debian. Only lsb-release > > and > > lsb-base are kept as they continue to be used throughout the archive. Note the date. You're mentioning a change that's 5 years old, much predating Stretch and Buster. What's left in Debian are bits that are actually used by some programs. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ in the beginning was the boot and root floppies and they were good. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ -- <willmore> on #linux-sunxi ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
