Re: LSB status for Squeeze and Wheezy?

On 08/06/2011 03:09 PM, Matt Taggart wrote:
>> info and see if I can't make some kind of sense of them for Debian, they
>> seem to have an rpm bias to me. (I realize rpm is required for LSB
>> compliance, but still.)
>
> All that's required for LSB runtime compliance is the ability to install
> "LSB packages" which use the rpm format, so using alien is just fine.
> Nothing requires the system itself to use rpm packages (or any packaging at
> all).
>
> But if the LSB test suite packages can't be installed then something is
> broken with the LSB test packages.

They should work just fine, the LSB team continue to test on a deb-based 
system regularly (yes, it's Ubuntu...sorry...).  Testing these days is 
nomrally driven by a test manager from the lsb-dist-checker package 
(this is a big part of the work that was done by ISPRAS, mentioned in a 
different message in this thread), which manages what packages need to 
be installed and handles the conversion of packages if it's needed; 
however, LSB continues to maintain a repository of deb packages to allow 
installation by normal apt-get means as well:

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lsb.list
deb http://ftp.linuxfoundation.org/pub/lsb/repositories/debian lsb-4.1 main


any questions, some of the LSB folk are still listening here, and for 
quick questions one can hop onto irc.linuxfoundation.org #lsb