[Pkg-postgresql-public] Dropping postgresql 8.3 for squeeze

[Stephen Frost]

* Dimitri Fontaine (dfontaine at hi-media.com) wrote:
> So ideally the extensions packaging should not have to be edited at all
> and produce binaries for all supported PostgreSQL version. Supported by
> the debian release which is building the package and by the extension
> itself, of course.

That's a wonderful goal, but it's also pie-in-the-sky unless you've got
a solution which can actually do this.  Perhaps it could be solved, but
I don't believe it'd be at all trivial to do.  If you're willing to put
the effort into solving it, great.  Perhaps having a virtual package
which is then used in build-depends to pull in "whatever is available in
this release" and then having the extensions able to dynamically build
their control files, etc, etc, based on what's available might work.

Asking that this already be implemented and working or you're not going
to maintain your packages strikes me as pretty horrible.

> I think the solution would be either to have someone able to accept to
> maintain PostgreSQL code in debian after upstream said there's no point
> doing so, or for the debian project to accept that a software released
> in a stable release could reach its EOL before the stable debian release
> does.

I seriously doubt Debian would be able to properly maintain PG packages
after they've been EOL'd upstream.

> Then we would have both PostgreSQL 8.3 and 8.4 in our next stable debian
> release and everyone would be happy, users first. I just want to add
> that PostgreSQL 8.3 will be maintained by upstream until February 2013,
> and that the lifespan of squeeze, AFAIK, should expand from 2010 to
> 2012.

I think you have a better chance of arguing this point- that 8.3 and 8.4
will be maintained upstream until our support of the next Debian release
is done, but I don't see how that changes the problem for you at all.
You still have to adjust your packages as the major versions change and
depending on what's available in what release.

	Thanks,

		Stephen

> The more we talk about this, the less I see the point.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> dim
> 
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