[Pkg-postgresql-private] virtual packages for Sarge?

[Oliver Elphick]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 12:00 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> However, I would prefer to let versions 7.2 and 7.3 die. It is
> questionable whether they are supported upstream for the probably long
> time that Etch will be developed and supported, and this new
> architecture is nothing for Sarge anyway. For Etch we can assume that
> we upgrade from Sarge, and so we should continue to support 7.4 (and
> provide a seamless upgrade to it), and only add version 8.0.
> 
> This will also get us rid of many obsolete dependencies (libpq2,
> kerberos-heimdal and so on).

I certainly wouldn't propose to spend a lot of effort on them; however,
if I get it into experimental soon, there will still be people on 7.2
from woody, who could use it to avoid having to do a dump restore during
package upgrade, which we know to be a major source of problems.  (If I
had known that sarge was going to be delayed so long, I would have got
on with this back in February.)

Similarly, there are some people who are still on 7.3.

I suppose that upstream will stop supporting 7.2 once 8.0 is out, but we
had a bugfix release on 7.2 only last month, so I wouldn't regard it as
dead yet.

The fact that the -dev packages are only from the latest release should
protect us against new database-using packages relying on an old
version.  As for the dependencies, I think that they will go away
because I would use current unstable for building the packages.  So
postgresql7.2 would use MIT kerberos rather than Heimdal.
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