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

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 04/07/2017 07:35 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:

> 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.

Sounds good; I filed a bug for it here
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11316


Alex