Re: [DNG] Debian abandons LSB

2020-06-11 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-06-11 11:46, Simon Hobson wrote: > > > What's left in Debian are bits that are actually used by some > > > programs. > > > > Such as the LSB headers in init scripts? > > > > Some SysV init maintainers have very strict opinions on those > > headers, considered a language for the insserv "

Re: [DNG] Debian abandons LSB

2020-06-11 Thread Simon Hobson
Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base#Limitations_on_Debian Ah, that helps. I was confusing LSB with FSH and LSB headers - not that I ever followed such detail closely. >> What's left in Debian are bits that are actually used by some programs. >

Re: [DNG] Debian abandons LSB

2020-06-11 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Dng
On 07/06/2020 00:33, Adam Borowski wrote: > 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 ?

Re: [DNG] Debian abandons LSB

2020-06-06 Thread Adam Borowski
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 pro

[DNG] Debian abandons LSB

2020-06-05 Thread Simon Hobson
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 (9.20150826) unstable; urgency=low > > This update drops all lsb-* compa