[lsb-discuss] LSB adoption acceleration proposal

[Lepied, Frederic]

daniel.r.kegel at gmail.com wrote:
> On 9/29/06, Lepied, Frederic <frederic.lepied at intel.com> wrote:
>> To accelerate the adoption of the LSB, we should promote its use
>> inside the open source community. This would demonstrate that the LSB
>> is viable solution with real life examples of how to implement it.
>> 
>> The idea is to help projects that are already building binary
>> packages for some distros to build binary packages for the LSB
>> instead. We could then imagine to advertize such projects or to list
>> them somewhere on the LSB web pages.
> 
> Here's the main problem I see with that: open source folks want
> online package delivery, but none of the LSB doc deals with how
> to generate yum and apt repositories containing LSB packages.
> Also, the LSB packaging tools don't include a copy of alien,
> which they would need to do to make it easy to generate LSB
> packages in .deb format to insert into said apt repositories.
> Solve those two problems and Bob's your uncle.

I don't think this is an issue because if they already distribute
binary packages, they could distribute LSB packages the same way.
--
Fred - May the source be with you