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

[Dimitri Fontaine]

Hi,

Martin Pitt <mpitt at debian.org> writes:
> Dimitri Fontaine [2009-12-30 21:04 +0100]:
>> Thinking about it some more, I guess a common script to drive the PGXS
>> based building of extensions for a given PostgreSQL version would have
>> its place into postgresql-common-dev or something. That would better fit
>> as a binary package from
>>   http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/postgresql-common
>> 
>> I plan to prepare the script then send it to you, would you want a
>> complete patch against your package, just the script or nothing thx?
>
> Just the files should be enough, but of course I'll appreciate a
> complete debdiff including changelog, debian/control and dh_install
> changes, etc. :-)

So I've finally had some time to spend on this, so please find attached
a proof of concept debdiff. What's missing is a manpage for the newer
/usr/bin/pg_buildext tool (is the path right?), but I'm confused about
how you manage the sources of yours. Do you directly edit the nroff
version?

You can find an example of usage here:
  http://github.com/dimitri/prefix/commit/eb67ed4a18a9bbf8af0343a1ec0ffa9145ed2cb4

What remains to be done would be, apart from adapting some more packages
to use the tool, to handle build-dependancies at this level. The prefix
package for example now has:

  Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), postgresql-dev-common,
                 postgresql-server-dev-8.3, postgresql-server-dev-8.4

Those last two dependencies could go to postgresql-dev-common, that
you'd maintain for us all so that I don't have to change this when the
package migrates. Then there's the dynamic debian/control issue that I
don't know how to tackle yet. Will RTFM about this clue you gave me.

Regards,
-- 
dim

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