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

[Julien Danjou]

At 1262199870 time_t, Martin Pitt wrote:
> That should be easy to do, since its dependencies can be autogenerated
> during build based on supported-versions (using dpkg substvars). It
> could be nice to have that, but then you would still need to have some
> magic to generate the per-version binary packages in debian/control,
> which requires a sourceful upload.

You can also build a postgresql-${module} with all .so for all supported
version (supported version: intersection of pg supported version and
modules supported version).

That's what is done with python AFAIK.

> OTOH, if you are using a debian/control.in and a rule to regenerate
> debian/control from it using supported-versions, then you can just as
> well generate the -server-dev-X.Y build dependencies along with the
> p-foo-X.Y binary package records?

Doable, but not sure it will be OK since it will generate new packages
which will have to go through NEW queue.

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