[Pkg-postgresql-public] postgresql 8.2 packaging

[Markus Wanner]

Hi,

Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> On Monday 02 March 2009 14:32:34 Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> 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.

AFAIU, Gerfried's point was that nobody from Debian is willing to
maintain ancient Postgres releases, complaining that they have to
maintain 7.4 now.

> Simple idea: could we expect a good response from upstream to such a proposal:
>  a. PG core-team is consulted to choose which major versions to distribute in 
> debian stable when it's cooked
>  b. PG core-team will not EOL a version still distributed in debian stable
>  c. thanks to a debian packagers team helping on the matter
> 
> This would allow us to benefit from debian supporting e.g. 8.2 8.3 and 8.4 in 
> squeeze, under PG core team full support.
> 
> Any chance this would fly?

Well, both are open source projects, so it's pretty hard to talk anybody
into maintaining something for many years, I think.

Additionally, I don't think the problem has been communication between
the Debian and the Postgres project. I think it's rather the very
different release cycles and maintenance frames.

The only option I currently see to improve the situation is to offer
help and actually do the necessary work, like for example taking care of
7.4 for etch.

Regards

Markus Wanner