[Pkg-postgresql-public] postgresql 8.2 packaging

Dimitri Fontaine dfontaine at hi-media.com
Mon Mar 2 09:18:43 UTC 2009


Hi,

On Monday 02 March 2009 09:39:50 Martin Pitt wrote:
> If you install squeeze from scratch, you can't install -8.3, because
> it's not in the squeeze archive. This is a feature, not a bug.

I don't understand how it's a feature.

> We cannot support 8.3 in squeeze (or 8.1 in lenny) because upstream
> releases are not supported that long. 

Wouldn't it be possible for debian to include a package which will reach EOL 
between a stable release and next? e.g. 8.1 in lenny would stop receiving 
upstream updates at some point, but 8.1.latest would still be there, and all 
previous minor upgrades would have been supported.

We have two problems to support here, I think:
 - upgrades
 - maintenance of currently "live" major version

It seems to me all those mails only consider upgrades and forget all about 
users not willing to upgrade PostgreSQL major version (say 8.2) when they go 
from etch to lenny. It seems to me 8.2 will still be supported by upstream 
when etch will be EOL'd, a year from now.

> Even if it would "just about"
> work (align two Debian releases with one upstream support cycle), this
> is first highly unpredictable (due to the non-time based nature of
> Debian releases), and also I don't see any reason why we should, given
> Debian's long release and support cycles.

We should offer debian stable users running with one of the currently supported 
major PostgreSQL version the option to do packaged minor upgrades, IMO.

I don't see the downside in having a no more maintained major version in 
debian stable, it just won't receive updates, no more minor versions, whatever 
happens. PostgreSQL users know about it. Is it impossible to accept at debian 
side of things?

-- 
dim



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