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

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 04/07/2017 04:29 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:

> The main question here is if we are going to keep OpenSSL 1.0 and 1.1 in
> parallel inside OE-Core or not. For Pyro I think we should stay on 1.0
> or have 1.1 as an opt-in option, but for 2.4 I would say to drop 1.0 if
> possible and move 1.0 to a layer ... potentially, lsb support could be
> moved to a layer as we did with gplv2 and qt4.

Pyro will have 1.0 only. It is too late to introduce anything new to it.

For 2.4 there will be no opt-ins to openssl 1.1, sorry. You will have to 
opt-out of it. Opt-in means no one will do anything to port their stuff 
to 1.1 until 1.0 is unsupported upstream and removed, and then there'll 
lots of moaning that there still needs to be more time for the 
transition. Opting out is trivial - change your DEPENDS from openssl to 
openssl10 (which means you implicitly agree to depend on a deprecated 
component).

Dropping 1.0 is not possible, at least not now - openssh for instance 
has not been ported to 1.1.

Patches are here if anyone wants to look at the code:
https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=akanavin/openssl-1.1


Whether LSB support is in a separate layer or not does not actually 
matter. What matters is whether the autobuolder is testing it, and 
therefore any failures must be resolved before patches are merged to master.

Alex