[Pkg-postgresql-public] postgresql 8.2 packaging

[Peter Eisentraut]

Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>  I thought that way - but there were points raised that weren't that
> clear to me so far and I guess neither to you: postgres propably won't
> maintain 8.3 for as long as we would have to support squeeze. We are
> currently stumbling into exactly this problem with postgres 7.4:
> Upstream released its last update to it - we will have to keep
> maintaining it for another year. This means upstream work within Debian
> - and this is nothing we are able to do.

Well, if you have a stake in continuing the maintenance of 7.4, please 
get involved upstream.  The reason many releases are maintained for five 
years is that RHEL offers five years of updates and Red Hat has a 
contributor that does the leg work.  Debian and/or Ubuntu could do the 
same.  Speaking up and making your wishes known would be a good first step.