[lsb-discuss] Archive of this Mailing List

[Mats Wichmann]

On 2/5/23 23:59, Lee Thomas Stephen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As asked in
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/2021-April/008275.html
> The archives are at
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/
> 
> I came to this mailing list due to this comment.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2118596#c1
> I do system administration work and needed LSB in RHEL for my work.

Not sure if you were looking for a reaction...

The LSB project is essentially abandoned - partially superseded by other 
approaches to achieving application portability/stability that are now 
in vogue (e.g. Snaps, Flatpaks, and to some extent Docker containers)... 
not that surprised that Red Hat has phased out the packages, with the 
non-availability of aarch64 support, something which LSB itself is never 
going to get to doing; and indeed, the old versions of libraries I'd 
agree are problematic.

The single lsb_release command I find quite useful, but at this point 
it's pretty much lying, as one of its reporting functions is to tell 
which LSB modules are supported. There is a sample implementation if you 
find the Fedora/RHEL one problematic to keep alive after they phase it out:

https://github.com/linuxstandardbase/lsb-samples

No longer recall how functional it is.