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

[Mark Hatle]

On 4/7/17 11:35 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 13:58 +0300, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
>> So I want to ask: how much effort should we spend on keeping it on
>> life 
>> support going forward? I'm all for dropping it entirely, but I 
>> understand that it still may be an important checkbox to cross for 
>> commercial vendors. Still, the components it requires (qt4 for
>> instance) 
>> are increasingly bitrotting, and at some point the question of
>> dropping 
>> them will become acute. What you think?
> 
> My proposal (for 2.4) is we put a file into OE-Core which states
> exactly which pieces of lsb we continue to support. We'd drop qt4 as
> its obsolete and mention openssl as one of the reasons. We could also
> drop some things like mailx as it a dead upstream and openssl.
> 
> The key thing would be to document which pieces were no longer
> supported and why. We'd then modify the code so for example the qt4
> layer was no longer required.
> 
> I don't think the automated testing actually runs the lsb tests today,
> that is handled by QA. QA would have a list of tests we know will never
> pass and we'd exclude that test list from our results.
> 
> I think that should given everyone what they need, we'd just need to
> discuss and agree the list of things we accept from LSB what we won't
> do/meet.

Agree, this would certainly meet my needs.

--Mark

> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
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