Follow-up to https://issues.guix.gnu.org/56706 „gnu: Tryton application
and framework: Update to 6.2.x.“.
Am 23.07.22 um 18:11 schrieb Vinicius Monego:
I'd suggest keeping Tryton at 6.0 to retain compatibility with GNU
Health, which tracks only the LTS versions of Tryton (minor versions
at
0).
To clarify a little further, GNU Health [1] (to keep it short, it is a
set of health-related tryton modules) is not yet packaged in Guix. I
did attempt to package it but got stuck in test errors in the check
phase.
In general Guix is a rolling release distribution. Thus IMHO tryton
should be updated.
Anyhow I understand that we need a LTS variant for GNU Health and other
conservative users. We could create a „tryton-lts.scm“ which holds the
LTS versions, inherited from the current release. Creating such a file
is expected be to not much of a problem.
WDYT?
The Tryton release process is explained in [2]. Normal releases have
one year of support, while LTS releases have 5 years. Tryton has a huge
package ecosystem and is mostly used in enterprise where LTS is more
important. Tracking non-LTS releases would mean huge and breaking
upgrades at least every year. Also 6.2 will be EOL in 3 months [2].
[1]https://www.gnuhealth.org/
[2]https://discuss.tryton.org/t/release-process/395
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Hartmut Goebel
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