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Debian Dropping Linux Standard Base (lwn.net)

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-quite-as-standard-as-before dept.

basscomm writes: For years (as seen on Slashdot) the Linux Standard Base has been developed as an attempt to reduce the differences between Linux distributions in an effort significant effort. However, Debian Linux has announced that they are dropping support for the Linux Standard Base due to a lack of interest.

From the article: "If [Raboud's] initial comments about lack of interest in LSB were not evidence enough, a full three months then went by with no one offering any support for maintaining the LSB-compliance packages and two terse votes in favor of dropping them. Consequently, on September 17, Raboud announced that he had gutted the src:lsb package (leaving just lsb-base and lsb-release as described) and uploaded it to the "unstable" archive. That minimalist set of tools will allow an interested user to start up the next Debian release and query whether or not it is LSB-compliant—and the answer will be 'no.'"

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  1. Debian Spiral by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It seems like Debian has decided to live up to its logo, the spiral. In adopting systemd and abandoning LSB, Debian has begun its death spiral.

    1. Re: Debian Spiral by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      it does make it much harder to troubleshoot since stderr is swallowed and very often error messages don't make it into the journal.

      But it boots faster, so the 20 seconds you save booting more than make up for the hours you have to spend fixing it.

    2. Re: Debian Spiral by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Because stderr is for errors and systemd has no errors

  2. Re:Effort significant effort by edittard · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yup. That's two efforts more than the editors make.

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  3. Well by fyngyrz · · Score: 4, Funny

    as an attempt to reduce the differences between Linux distributions in an effort significant effort

    My effort significant effort is effectively effortless. It's the effort effect at work. So there.

    "editors" -- I don't think that word means what the slashdot "editors" think it means.

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    1. Re:Well by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Funny

      Bears shit in the woods?

      Thanks jerk. There goes my childhood.

      You think that's traumatic ... humans shit in houses. In freakin' houses!!

      And fish? You're not ready to hear about the fish.

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  4. Re:Effort significant effort by tripleevenfall · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think that's fair at all. The editors make an effort significant effort to bring us quality high quality content.

  5. Debian? Some kind of Ubuntu based distro? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why not go to the source and use Ubuntu instead?

  6. Re:Effort significant effort by Kenshin · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Huh, looks like I accidentally my submission somehow."

    Maybe you accidentally your keyboard.

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  7. Forking Jokes Here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    N/T

  8. Wait! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    How can they do that? Isn't it all about the base?