Re: Ubuntu Artful disappeared?

Re: Andrew France 2017-12-06 <1512600558(dot)2822930(dot)1196585840(dot)5C1EA20E(at)webmail(dot)messagingengine(dot)com>
> Hi all,
>
> I recently noticed the following output from `apt update` in Ubuntu:
>
> Err:11 http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt artful-pgdg Release
>   404  Not Found [IP: 87.238.57.227 80]
> [...]
> E: The repository 'http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt artful-pgdg
> Release' no longer has a Release file.
>
> It seems the "artful" (Ubuntu 17.10) packages have been removed? I've
> Googled and searched this mailing list but haven't been able to
> determine why.

Hi Andrew,

there were never any packages in the artful-pgdg distribution. As
bionic (the next LTS) is already available for testing on the Ubuntu
mirrors, and we never got around to start filling artful-pgdg in time,
I figured we'd just jump ahead to start filling bionic and skip
artful. I removed the distribution from apt.postgresql.org so people
wouldn't think it would work.

bionic-pgdg-testing now has postgresql-10 and postgresql-common, and
pgadmin4 (still work in progress, but usable).

> Is it recommended to switch to packages for the next or previous version
> instead?

I haven't heard any complaints about incompatibilities between
zesty-pgdg and artful, so I guess installing the zesty-pgdg packages
works. (We have installability tests for that, but not
cross-distribution.)

> Thanks for making these packages available!

Thanks for the question, I should have announced that here.

Christoph