[lsb-discuss] LSB conference call (2011-04-27, 11am ET)

[Mats Wichmann]

On 04/29/2011 05:38 PM, Craig.Scott at csiro.au wrote:
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>>> I'd suggest first understanding what didn't work with the previous attempt at making the LSB support a set of sub-components before having another go at this.
>>
>> There was no previous attempt. We've been discussing this for a long
>> time and might finally have a proposal that has a good chance at
>> success. Time to get cracking and do something.
>
> I was thinking here of LSB 3.x where packages could depend on lsb-core or lsb-graphics, which has since been deprecated. This is a very crude component-based dependency set, but there should be some knowledge gained from what was hoped to be achieved when it was put in the LSB, plus some lessons learnt which led to them subsequently being deprecated.


actually they weren't really fully put into use: the ability existed, 
but didn't end up being enforced - the LSB chair of the day effectively 
killed it.  Debian and Ubuntu still do follow the model where there are 
dependency packages for major components, and lsb_release reports on the 
versions supported by those, but as nobody else does it's not useful. 
So we didn't really learn anything from it.