Re: Bug#704285: release-notes: Debian doesn't support LSB 3.2

Hi all,

Le vendredi, 5 avril 2013 15.02:39, Julien Cristau a écrit :
> cc:ing the lsb maintainer

Thanks for the explicit CC.

> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 01:22:59 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > If I understand the lsb packaging correctly, Debian aims at support
> > for LSB 4.1 these days instead of LSB 3.2.

That's correct. The packages created by src:lsb try to achieve that support. 
Note that Debian is not (has not and I doubt it will eventually be) LSB-
certified.

> > More importantly, the Linux Standard Base Desktop Specification
> > (both version 3.2 or 4.1) says:
> > 	The libraries listed in Table 3-1 shall be available on a
> > 	Linux Standard Base - Desktop system, with the specified
> > 	runtime names.
> > 	
> > 	[...]
> > 	libqt-mt	libqt-mt.so.3
> > 
> > but wheezy does not include that library.

That's correct. This has been documented in lsb-desktop NEWS entry for the 
4.1+Debian7 version (attached):

>   From its 4.1+Debian7 version on, lsb-desktop doesn't depend on Qt3
>   anymore. This is an explicit and Debian-specific derogation from the LSB
>   4.1 specification.

Then the README.Debian points to snapshot.debian.org.

> > Index: whats-new.dbk
> > ===================================================================
> > --- whats-new.dbk	(révision 9650)
> > +++ whats-new.dbk	(copie de travail)
> > @@ -362,7 +362,10 @@
> > 
> >  </programlisting>
> >  
> >  <para>
> > 
> > -Debian still supports Linux Standard Base (<acronym>LSB</acronym>)
> > version 3.2. +Debian supports Linux Standard Base
> > (<acronym>LSB</acronym>) version 4.1. +It also supports most Linux
> > Standard Base Desktop 4.1 interfaces, with +the exception that instead
> > of including both Qt 3 and Qt 4, it only +includes Qt 4.
> > 
> >  <indexterm><primary>Linux Standard Base</primary></indexterm>
> >  </para>

I would phrase it as the carefully-thought NEWS entry above:

> Debian supports Linux Standard Base (<acronym>LSB</acronym>) version 4.1,
> with one explicit and Debian-specific derogation from the
> <acronym>LSB</acronym> 4.1 specification: Qt3 is not included; see the
> lsb-desktop README file.

What do you think ?

> Didier, care to ack/nak?

ACK-but. :-)

Cheers,

OdyX

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