[Openembedded-architecture] LSB is dead; when shall we drop it?

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 04/07/2017 04:07 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:

> (Really making sure this keeps working should not be more then a day or so work
> over the course of every stable release.  If it is, we need to understand what
> is causing this work.)

I trust you do understand the concept of "bit rot" and the maintenance 
overhead it's causing? Here's a specific example: this week day I was 
introducing openssl 1.1 into oe-core, and checking a dozen recipes that 
are not compatible with it by hand to see what, if anything, they are 
doing about it.

Qt4 is one such component, and it's pretty clear it will never be 
compatible with openssl 1.1. So I ended up disabling ssl support in Qt4 
- which was thankfully not difficult to do, but is a regression in Qt4 
API we provide. I expect Qt4 will continue to be a source of similar 
issues in the future as we move on with the times in oe-core, and at 
some point there will be an issue that is not easy to resolve without 
disabling Qt4 altogether.

Another LSB-mandated component is mailx, which is also dead upstream, 
and requires openssl 1.0. When openssl 1.0 becomes unsupported at the 
end of 2019, what are we supposed to do? Not clear to me now.


Alex