Bug#468147: Re: Bug#468147: Check for correct lsb-base dependency for init script functions

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

Hello everybody.

As of today, lsb-base is "less essential" than before, because
util-linux no longer depends on it in stretch.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, lsb-base is a shell library to be used by
init.d scripts, but those scripts are obsoleted by systemd.

So, it is now possible (and in fact I do that) to have a chroot to
build packages without lsb-base. When using a chroot like that, bugs
like this one are discovered:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839718

but of course we would discover them a lot faster if we had a lintian
check for this (even if it's not 100% perfect).

Thanks.