Re: Do we really want to migrate plproxy and citext into PG core distribution?

Am Wednesday, 23. July 2008 schrieb Tom Lane:
> As soon as a Fedora release happens, I'm
> constrained by compatibility issues as to what I can put into that
> branch. RHEL releases ten times more so. I gather that Debian, for
> instance, is even more paranoid than Red Hat about upstream version
> bumps.

Debian and Ubuntu have backport repositories that users can selectively refer
to. SUSE has the openSUSE build service, which serves a similar function.
So for these platforms, the infrastructure is there, and given infinite
packaging hands (which we would need under any scheme, of course), all the
packages in all the necessary versions can be provided through the right
channels (defined as, where a user of the environment would look). So I
don't think having our own repository is a problem or even desirable for
these OS/distributions.

And for Red Hat, we have pgsqlrpms.org, which already covers what you
describe.