[Pkg-postgresql-public] Helping with postgresql-8 packaging?

[Peter Eisentraut]

Am Dienstag, 19. April 2005 15:14 schrieb Stephen Frost:
> That's interesting- are you saying that there isn't an SONAME change
> between 7.4 and 8.0.2 then?  We should not be making SONAME changes
> ourselves unless there is a dire need for it because we'll end up not
> being binary-compatible to other distributions then.

No, what he is saying is this: The API of libpq changed between 7.4 and 8.0, 
but it was forgotten to change the soname.  The Debian package increased the 
soname anyway and the upstream release 8.0.2 finally also contained the 
required soname change.