[Pkg-postgresql-public] Any chance to get postgresql-8.0 into sarge?

[Oliver Elphick]

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 17:58 +0200, Stefan Huehner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> considering the long debian release-cycle it would be bad to not include
> the current postgresql version into the next stable release and forcing
> users to rely on or maintain their own backports.
> On the other side there is the risk of bringing in the new version and
> new multi-version packaging this late in the release...
> 
> Any chance to get version 8 into sarge?

The problem is that sarge is very close to freeze and lots of packages
would have to be recompiled against the new PostgreSQL.  That might
produce problems that would delay sarge's release.  Had we known that
sarge would be delayed so long, we would have got it in months ago, but
now is too late.

> How much work has to be done to achieve this?

We would need a release of 7.2 (and 7.3 for some people) compatible with
the new structure, so that upgrading would be easy.  postgresql (dummy
package) should perhaps depend on postgresql7.2 so as to force the
loading of a version compatible with woody version PostgreSQL data.

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