Re: [Health] [HEALTH] Problems with importing translation files in a VBox installation

[Emilien Klein]

2014-06-11 23:59 GMT+02:00 Emilien Klein <address@hidden>:
> Hi Constantine,
>
> 2014-06-11 22:29 GMT+02:00 Kostis Mousafiris <address@hidden>:
>> P.S.
>>
>> Also, IMHO, if anyone can, it would be highly desirable to pre-package all
>> this in a deb package-based distro and not in an OpenSUSE environement :-D
>
> GNU Health has been packaged for Debian, with version 2.4.1 currently
> available in Debian Testing.
> But there are several issues that looks like that I'm going to remove
> the package from the Debian archive in the coming 2 weeks, namely
> version conflicts with Tryton which renders the package
> unbuildable/uninstallable in Debian sid for 2/3 of the year.
> I've been discussing this yesterday on the Debian Med mailing list and
> was waiting for a few more days before reporting this back to the GNU
> Health community, but your comment prompted me to inform you sooner
> than later...
> See https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2014/06/msg00054.html for more 
> details.
>
> Sorry about the bad news.
>     +Emilien

The previous link mentioned the "reduction" in functionality of the
package. The current package creates (if the user wants to) the
database and will take care of upgrades to the database and backups
when the package is upgraded.
However the discussion continued a bit, and in the current state (with
Tryton 3.2 already uploaded in Debian Sid) it is not even possible to
build the package anymore (because GNU Health 2.4 strictly depends on
Tryton 3.0, which is not available anymore in Debian Sid). Based on
the combinations of these issues, it's most likely that supporting the
GNU Health package in Debian would be either detrimental to Tryton
users (not able to use the most recent versions), or a major release
issues (having to package several Tryton versions concurrently, and
then support them for the duration of all supported Debian releases).
You can see a bit more of the discussion in the follow-up message
https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2014/06/msg00056.html

Cheers,
     +Emilien