[lsb-discuss] A Modest Proposal for Solving the Packaging Problem

[Denis Silakov]

On 04/24/11 01:50, Dan Harrison wrote:
> As a random thought, I saw something about a "hard copy book that 
> needed updating" with directions for packaging, the implication being 
> that the documentation is either out of date or fragmented. When I was 
> building an LSB compliant compiler (just to try), I used just such old 
> and fragmented documentation, and had to do a lot of guessing.
>
> If the main difficulty with that book is information gathering from 
> people who know stuff -- as opposed to actually having to invent 
> something new -- I would be curious about doing that.
>

My opinion is that it would be definitely nice to have an up-to-date 
copy of the book.

We have an online copy (http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Book) that 
should be easy to edit/update. We've updated some of its parts in 2009 
to correspond to LSB 4.0, but many pieces were not revised, indeed.

-- 
Regards,
Denis.