[Pkg-postgresql-private] PostgreSQL co-maintenance

[Oliver Elphick]

Thank you all for volunteering for this.

Let me set out what my current plans are for the postgresql package.

The current unstable version is 7.3.4-7.  I don't really expect to do
anything more to this unless some horrid bug shows up.  I haven't put
this version under CVS.

The version I'm actively working on is 7.4beta4, currently in
experimental as 7.3.99.7.4beta4-3.  This version is in CVS, plus some
very recent changes which have not yet been uploaded as a package.

The most recent changes are fixes to the installation, which have
finally solved a nasty bug which killed the preinst when there were
missing configuration files, and the beginnings of internationalising
debconf.  So far there is only a Japanese translation (at least I hope
it's a translation, but it's all Japanese to me!)  This release will
also drop libpqpp and libpqpp-dev which are for the obsolete C++
interface, and the python packages, since PyGreSQL is now separated
upstream and I have a volunteer to take them over.

What I would like would be to get a lot of the bug list cleared.  If
anyone intends to tackle a bug, please announce it here.  Perhaps we
should copy bugs to the Alioth tracker system, to make it easy to see
who is dealing with what.  It would be a good idea to send a message to
xxx-maintonly@bugs.debian.org as well so that there is a record on bug
xxx to say that it is in the system.

Please feel free to voice your own wishes for the package.

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Oliver Elphick                                Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
Isle of Wight, UK                             http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
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