[Pkg-postgresql-public] postgresql 8.2 packaging

[Peter Eisentraut]

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.
> 
> 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?

Let's bring up this issue when a new set of minor releases is prepared. 
  Unless there is a technical blocker, I don't see a reason why this 
wouldn't work.