Re: LSB Status

["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@home.com>]

On 28-Nov-2001 Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[🔎] XFMail.20011128080215.shalehperry@home.com>,
> Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry@home.com> wrote:
>>Have you read the lsb?  Debian can not at this time claim to support it.  We
>>would have to rewrite not only our init scripts but how we do init scripts. 
>>Then there is the call for specific versions of glibc and a few others. 
>>There
>>are a few other items as well.
> 
> If I'm not mistaken that is not nessecary unless we plan to move
> all .deb archives over to .lsb too, which is not going to happen.
> Debian will stay Debian we just need to make it possible to install
>  .lsb files *as well*
> 

we can support the installation of lsb binaries HOWEVER the lsb spec adds a
'status' option to init scripts which lsb packages may expect to exist.  So at
the bare minimum we need to support that.

If we actually want to call Debian an LSB system that involves the work I
mentioned above.