bug#56733: Tryton LTS

[Hartmut Goebel]

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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