Bug 33052

Summary:	Remove LSB packages
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin <LpSolit>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	Mageia 10
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Source RPM:	lsb-4.1-25.mga9.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	33053

Description Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2024-04-03 14:54:48 CEST

As explained in bug 19684 comment 14 and bug 19684 comment 16, I suggest to drop LSB packages entirely, except lsb_release which can stay (see bug 19684 comment 18). The reason is that per https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/2023-February/008278.html, "the LSB project is essentially abandoned".

Also, per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2118596#c1, Fedora is not willing to waste energy on LSB 5.0 port either.

Debian and Ubuntu also dropped support for LSB:

https://lwn.net/Articles/658809/
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lsb/9.20150917ubuntu1

The changelog mentions: "Drop all the LSB compatibility packages besides lsb-release and lsb-base".

And the lsb-base description mentions: "This is an empty package; it's needed only because of Provides: not being supported in debootstrap.  It can be safely removed.". So it's basically an empty package.


If Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu all dropped support for LSB, I see no point for Mageia to still support it.

If you agree with this proposal, then bug 19684 could be closed as WONTFIX.

Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2024-04-03 14:57:36 CEST

Blocks: (none) => 33053

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2024-04-03 21:30:26 CEST

Thank you for this well documanted case for dropping LSB.
It has been mooted for dropping for ages. Devs need to decide: via the mailList?

If agreed to, please add it to Bug 32127 "[TRACKER] Packages that need to be obsoleted for Mageia 10 release".

Source RPM: (none) => lsb-4.1-25.mga9.src.rpm
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs