| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pkg-postgresql-public(at)lists(dot)alioth(dot)debian(dot)org, Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, backports-users(at)lists(dot)backports(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Postgres major version support policy on Debian |
| Date: | 2008-10-07 14:54:26 |
| Message-ID: | 48EB7822.7040309@hagander.net |
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Markus Wanner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> If there are no backported packages for any given Postgres major
>> version, what will happen is that a lot of people will be forced to
>> build them from source, which is a lot worse. (There is a reason why
>> PGDG provides RPM for all major versions, for a lot of Redhat
>> distributions -- people do want them).
>
> Uh.. in case that didn't get clear: I've already done the backports of
> Postgres 8.2.9 and 8.2.10 for debian etch. You can get these packages
> from the temporary repository here: http://www.bluegap.ch/debian/
Not having followed the whole discussion here.. But if location is the
only issue, we could perhaps provide a repository on the postgresql.org
servers for this, in case Debian does not want it on their official ones?
//Magnus
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