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

[Alexander Kanavin]

Hello everyone,

Linux Standard Base has essentially ceased any further development:

"The LSB 5.0 specification released in 2014 may well be the last of its 
kind. The specification and tests are in maintenance mode. Bugs will be 
accepted and fixed and these bug fixes may be released as updates, i.e. 
5.0.1 and others as needed. However, we do not presently plan to work 
new major LSB specification releases such as LSB 5.1 or 6.0."
https://github.com/LinuxStandardBase/lsb

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?


Alex