Re: Status of the src:lsb package

On 2015-09-23 14:21, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Hi Nikolaus,
> 
> Le jeudi, 17 septembre 2015, 09.27:56 Nikolaus Rath a écrit :
> > On Sep 17 2015, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> wrote:
> > > Le jeudi, 17 septembre 2015, 08.46:24 Nikolaus Rath a écrit :
> > >> I don't know about formal LSB compatibility, but there are several
> > >> proprietary applications that require nothing but the
> > >> /{lib,lib64}/ld-lsb.so* symlinks to work properly under Debian. So
> > >> it would be great if they could be preserved.
> > > 
> > > FYI, this used to be in lsb-core, and is to be found in the package
> > > VCS history.
> > > 
> > > I will not work towards this, but feel free to adopt the package and
> > > upload an updated version.
> > 
> > I'm only a DM and having to search for a fresh sponsor for every
> > upload is very frustrating. Would you be generally available to
> > sponsor my uploads (ideallyl until you feel comfortable to give me
> > upload privileges)?
> 
> Given that I'm (so far) convinced that _not_ providing the lsb packages 
> at all is the correct thing to do for Debian, I'd prefer if another DD 
> could sponsor any upload of src:lsb re-introducing these (and drop me 
> from Uploaders).
> 
> That said, as for the technical issue at hand, iff these symlinks [0] 
> are useful to make Debian relevant for (some) non-free software out 
> there, couldn't they be handled directly by libc6 on the various 
> architectures ?
> 
> src:eglibc maintainers: opinions ?

I am personally not very thrilled about that idea, because I don't think
the LSB compatibility should be handled at each package level, even if 
it looks technically easier to do that. 

That said if someone is motivated to provide a patch and maintain that
part in the future, I guess we can accept that.

Aurelien

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