On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 01:28:31AM +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
Neal Gompa wrote:
- AGREED: Fedora explicitly declines to support the LSB 5.0 or
earlier. Packagers will remove any information that implies otherwise. No implementation of an LSB package may expressly state or offer compliance for any LSB module that Fedora does not or cannot comply with. (+6, 0, 0) (Son_Goku, 17:59:18)
So Fedora has completely discarded any notion of backwards compatibility. Sad.
This is called "shooting the messenger".
LSB requires various obsolete interfaces, in particular it requires Python 2 to be available as /usr/bin/python. Comment [1] contains a nice listing. We are not going to bring back Python 2 or old PERL modules to satisfy LSB. The decision of FESCo is to not claim compatibility when we don't provide it.
[1] https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3089#comment-881313
Zbyszek