Where'd lsb-compat go?

From	Kent West <westk@acu.edu>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Where'd lsb-compat go?
Date	2019-07-11 20:50 +0200
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Two issues:


1) I have several Debian boxes running as kiosks, and reporting to a 
centralized Quest-branded "Systems Management Appliance" (SMA). With a 
recent update to the SMA, the Debian boxes stopped reporting in. After 
several weeks, I finally discovered that the installation of 
"lsb-compat" on several of them restored their functionality. Today, 
when I go to install "lsb-compat" on the other's, I find it's no longer 
available in Buster. Has it been deprecated? Why? Any ideas how I'm 
going to get my boxes reporting again to the SMA (what does "lsb-compat" 
do, that maybe I can duplicate manually, etc?)? I thought maybe 
"lsb-release" might do the same thing, as the basic problem is that the 
SMA's client piece on the Debian boxes had stopped finding the version 
of Debian installed on the box, which broke the reporting process. When 
I installed "lsb-compat", the SMA client piece could once again detect 
the Debian version.


2) When I compare two of my Debian boxes (set up at different times and 
probably in slightly different ways), I find that the 
/etc/apt/sources.list files are functionally identical (with no extras 
in the sources.list.d directory), but when I do an "aptitude search lsb" 
on each, they give different results. Huh? That doesn't make sense to 
me. For completeness:


root@lib-pac-04:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#


deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main 
contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main 
contrib non-free

# stable-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates main contrib 
non-free



----

root@lib-pac-04:~# aptitude search lsb
p liblist-utilsby-perl - higher-order list utility functions
p liblist-utilsby-xs-perl - XS implementation of List::UtilsBy
i lsb-base - Linux Standard Base init script functionality
i lsb-release - Linux Standard Base version reporting utility
r


====


root@mcg-pac-03:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main 
contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main 
contrib non-free

# stretch-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates main contrib 
non-free


----

root@mcg-pac-03:~# aptitude search lsb
p   liblist-utilsby-perl                             - higher-order list 
utility functions
p   liblist-utilsby-xs-perl                          - XS implementation 
of List::UtilsBy
v   lsb -
i   lsb-base                                         - Linux Standard 
Base init script functionality
i   lsb-compat                                       - Linux Standard 
Base Compatibility
v   lsb-core -
i A lsb-release                                      - Linux Standard 
Base version reporting utility


Thanks!


-- 

Kent

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Where'd lsb-compat go? Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-07-11 20:50 +0200
  Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Dominic Knight <dominicknight@gmx.com> - 2019-07-12 05:10 +0200
    Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-07-12 16:50 +0200
  Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2019-07-12 10:10 +0200
  Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-07-15 16:20 +0200
    Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-07-15 16:30 +0200
      Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-07-15 21:40 +0200
        Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-15 21:40 +0200
        Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-07-15 21:50 +0200
          Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-07-15 22:10 +0200
            Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-15 22:20 +0200
              Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2019-07-15 23:00 +0200
                Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-07-15 23:20 +0200
              Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-07-15 23:00 +0200
              Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-15 23:20 +0200
            Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-15 23:00 +0200
          Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-07-16 14:30 +0200
    Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-07-16 08:50 +0200
      Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-16 14:50 +0200

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