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Tryton LTS

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From: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel <at> crazy-compilers.com>
To: Vinicius Monego <monego <at> posteo.net>, bug-guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Tryton LTS
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 11:02:06 +0200

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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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Regards
Hartmut Goebel

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From: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel <at> crazy-compilers.com>
To: 56733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Tryton LTS
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 10:27:55 +0200

For the records: Tryton 6.0 was available up to at least 2022-08-09 
(commit 02de6a59813df9dd839117669535118f1b798ed4). So versions and 
hashes can be picked from there. Or even the tryton-scm at that version 
could be used as a base for tryton-lts.scm.

Please also note: The packages can be kept up-to-date easily using my 
tooling at https://codeberg.org/htgoebel/tryton-guix-helpers (and the 
upcoming “refresh to version“ feature).

-- 
Regards
Hartmut Goebel

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From: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel <at> crazy-compilers.com>
To: 56733-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tryton LTS
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:39:17 +0200

See https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/issues/1438

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