Debian Bug report logs - #707637
gnuhealth: Maintenance for different Tryton versions

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mathias Behrle <mathiasb@m9s.biz>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: gnuhealth: Maintenance for different Tryton versions

Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 22:02:38 +0200

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Package: gnuhealth
Version: 1.8.1-1 (svn rev 13528)
Severity: wishlist

This is not even wishlist, just an offer. Please evaluate, discuss and thanks
for feedback, whatever the result will be.

Maintenance for different Tryton versions

   There is a reason behind debian.tryton.org. Up to now there is no way to map
   the release *and* maintenance cycle of Tryton relases to Debian releases.
   Tryton has a strict timebased release cycle of 6 months, Debian is releasing
   appr. all 2 years. Tryton publishes bugfix releases for 2 years for every
   stable version. There is no way to get those bugfix releases into a stable
   release. That is exactly the point, why we are providing for the sake
   of Tryton users Debian packages for Tryton besides the official repositories.
   Until now you are forced to upgrade your users to Tryton bleeding edge,
   because this is, what will be in unstable. Do you really want to take this
   risk for users, that depend on the reliablity of their application and data
   (medical centers, doctors, etc.)? I certainly won't recommend that, and as
   Tryton contributors since version 1.0 never would do it with our customers.
   Perhaps the upcoming layout of PPA/DPA/*PA will allow to host those packages
   in Debian itself, but it will depend on the final layout.
   Of course we are offering you to maintain the gnuhealth packages on
   debian.tryton.org together with the possibility to publish versions suitable
   for different Tryton and Debian releases (besides the versions in Debian
   itself).
   We are using the packaging workflow from git-stuff. If you are interested
   you are welcome.


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Message #10 received at 707637-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Emilien Klein <emilien+debian@klein.st>

To: 707637-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Closing bug report

Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 09:02:44 +0200

The combination of GNU Health depending on a strict major version of
Tryton (X.Y) and the time delay between releases of new Tryton and GNU
Health versions (several months) was one of the reasons that made the
maintenance of the GNU Health package problematic.
As a RC bug (#748561) caused the autoremoval of GNU Health from
testing, I'm closing this bug report.

A couple of email threads that might be relevant to this bug report
(for documentation purposes):
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2014-May/026392.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/health/2014-06/msg00002.html

Mathias has indicated he might be picking up the package [0], you are
thus set to address these comments as you please ;)

Thanks for your help and comments on this package.
   +Emilien
[0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/health/2014-06/msg00008.html

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