Process to update major version of LMOD on LTS?

[Alexandre Strube]

Hi, I am the maintainer of LMOD on Debian.

For a long time we have been pushing for the update of LMOD on all systems.
Turns out that most of the clusters and supercomputers using Ubuntu are on
the LTS releases (20.04 and 22.04).

LMOD on them is a ancient version, prior to my time on Debian (6.x).

Many of the tools which rely on LMOD themselves deprecated support for LMOD
a while ago, or are about to.

In order to overcome that, I have been providing packages for Ubuntu (and
Debian Stable) on my Github repo [1], but I hope there’s a better way of
doing so.

I had a meeting yesterday with LMOD’s author, and he guarantees that this
is a drop-in replacement, and should be done officially.

Is there a way I can do so?


[1] https://github.com/surak/Lmod/releases/
<https://github.com/surak/Lmod/releases/tag/8.7.25>

[]
Alexandre Strube
surak at ubuntu.com
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