[Pkg-postgresql-public] Getting postgresql-8.4 8.4.12-2 into wheezy

[Martin Pitt]

Hello release team,

Christoph Berg just pointed out to me that the latest postgresql-8.4
upload [1] is not in wheezy yet [2]. I uploaded it way before the
freeze, but apparently due to the NBS binaries it somehow did not get
the automatic testing propagation.

My original plan was to only ship wheezy with postgresql-9.1. However,
due to the Perl transition squeeze's postgresql-plperl-8.4 package
(which depends on libperl5.12) is not installable in wheezy any more
(as that has libperl5.14 which is not co-installable with
libperl5.12). The other binaries are fine.

So I uploaded a source which only builds -plperl-8.4, so that (1) we
avoid having new installations of -8.4, and (2) avoid having to fix
security issues in wheezy which affect 8.4, as that version will drop
upstream support soon. It is only required for upgrades from squeeze
which use PL/Perl, admins can remove the -8.4 bits after upgrading
their databases to 9.1.

The last reverse dependency of -8.4 was removed only some weeks ago,
that's why it took so long to remove 8.4 in the first place.

Please allow -2 into wheezy. There is no way I can provide security
support for 8.4 for wheezy's lifetime, and 8.4 was never meant to be
in wheezy in the first place.

Thank you in advance and sorry for the trouble!

Martin

[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/postgresql-8.4/news/20120620T054900Z.html
[2] http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=postgresql-8.4

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