From: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
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To: | Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: deprecating contrib for PGXN |
Date: | 2011-05-18 18:07:16 |
Message-ID: | 365F2DC9-F53D-4B68-9D4F-E858F06DEE14@kineticode.com |
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On May 18, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Well, I'm not sure I buy into that idea, I need to think about it some
> more. The thing with debian for example is that the package building
> needs to be all automatic, and determistic — you're not granted to have
> the next version build a different set of binary packages.
>
> We're working about that very point with postgresql-X.Y-extension
> packages so that you can have a new binary package produced when you add
> support for a new major version, but we're not there yet. Having the
> set of binary packages change manually is ok, but debian also have the
> concept of binNMU which is an infrastructure forced rebuild if you wish
> (picture libc upgrades).
>
> So, given how the debian packaging actually works, having something
> automated that works from “distributions” which in PGXN can contain
> several extensions — I'm not seeing it. It looks a little like how
> things work in the Java world with jar and war packaging…
I think it must be my ignorance of Debian (and Java) packaging at work here, because I don't understand any of the above (except the par where you need to think about it some more, which is smart).
> FYI, I'm still working on apt.postgresql.org so that we have debian
> packaging for all major versions here, and all extensions for all those
> major versions too. It's not the first item on my TODO list, but we
> will get there eventually — this year I would figure, we even have a
> team forming.
That sounds awesome.
Best,
David
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