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

[Mark Hatle]

Specifications like Carrier Grade Linux require the LSB tests to be run and
certain tests to be passed.

So it is still necessary to have support for an LSB configuration.

On 4/7/17 5:58 AM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> 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?

This always confuses me.  What is the 'cost' to keeping it working?

QT4 is external of core.  It is already documented as optional within OE-Core.
If someone wants LSB requirements and doesn't want QT4, there is nothing wrong
with that behavior.  (In fact this is typical in our style of embedded systems.)

What needs to happen, is simply documentation -- in the code or in a release
note -- that indicates the parameters and what is and isn't supported by
OE-Core, and additional layers -- if we have that knowledge.

(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.)

--Mark

> 
> Alex
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