[lsb-discuss] Bug#714634: Clarification of general LSB requirements

[Jeff Licquia]

On 07/11/2013 02:22 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Le mercredi, 10 juillet 2013 20.20:21, Steve Langasek a écrit :
>>
>> Well, I think that package description is silly in its lawyeresque
>> weaselness.  The raison d'être of the package is to provide an
>> LSB-compliant layer, which is what it means to support installing
>> and running LSB packages.  I don't see any reason the package
>> description should have this long disclaimer about the possibility
>> of bugs in the implementation.
> 
> The core of what this phrasing [0] conveys is "this package doesn't 
> imply that Debian is LSB-compliant but is our best-effort at it"; I 
> would welcome any patch in that direction, if possible acked by 
> Jeff/LSB.

We've always considered the "lsb" package to be a functional component,
and not to indicate any kind of implied legal requirement or promise
beyond the usual concern an upstream has that a package be as bug-free
and correct as possible.

So feel free to do what you wish regarding the disclaimer, including
dropping it entirely.

(Though I will defer to someone else to actually write the patch given
my own conflict of interest.)
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