[Openembedded-architecture] Removing LSB support from OE

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 11:38 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 10:31:28AM -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> > On 6/26/19 9:42 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > > On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 14:48, Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
> > ...
> > > > If anyone is actually interested in LSB in OE, the natural
> > > > approach
> > > > would in any case be to create a meta-lsb layer that could also
> > > > implement the items in README.LSB like adding no longer
> > > > provided
> > > > recipes or depending on meta-qt4.
> > > > 
> > > > Are there any objections against removing LSB support from oe-
> > > > core?
> > > 
> > > I'd actually be quite pleased with this: there can be a proper
> > > meta-lsb which depends on meta-qt4 meta-oe etc and actually tries
> > > hard
> > > to actually be LSB compliant.
> > 
> > I thought we had this discussion either here or at one of the
> > oedam/oedem
> > meetings and decided exactly this.  Create a meta-lsb and move the
> > packagegroups, images, etc to it.. and have it setup the necessary
> > layer
> > dependencies.
> > 
> > All expected to be minimal work and overall minimal maintenance,
> > until it's no
> > longer 'required'.  (I do think we ARE getting closer and closer to
> > that day..)
> 
> Is there any volunteer for doing this?
> 
> I feel kinda responsible since I suggested it, but maintaining
> something 
> where I have zero interest or usecase would not really be a good
> idea.

The way things work, nobody with an interest in lsb will probably do
this as moving it to a layer will then mean they need to maintain it.

Its been discussed before and I think everyone agrees that it should
move to its own layer. I will therefore take a patch which does that.

The layer will need a maintainer and I'd hope that some of the people
who need lsb will step up. If they don't, I'm not sure that is a
problem, they obviously don't need it.

In other words creating this patch doesn't mean you have to maintain
the split off layer in my view.

Cheers,

Richard