Re: Ubuntu: Remove Wily, add Yakkety

On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> wrote:

> Re: Jason Petersen 2016-10-13 <86BF732C-4B0F-40A0-92DC-
> 199B92C79370(at)citusdata(dot)com>
> > The pop-up on https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/ still
> lists Ubuntu Wily (15.10), which is no longer supported as of 2016-07-28.
> Today, Ubuntu Yakkety (16.10) was released, so it seems like it might be a
> good time to retire 15.10 in favor of a set of 16.10 packages.
>
> Hi Jason,
>
> thanks for spotting!
>
> www: can you please remove Wily from the dropdown box?
>

Done. Will update on the next reload.

To be over-clear, that leaves xenial, trusty and precise on the Ubuntu
download page.

> Re Yakkety, we don't have a real policy yet on which non-LTS releases
> we are supporting (there's so many of them...). Historically we've
> added them once the most recent LTS packages started to be
> uninstallable due to dependencies. Rebuilding packages for the newly
> added distributions was always painful, but we have more experience
> with that now.
>
> Do we see a real user demand for the non-LTS releases so it would make
> sense to add them? (In the past, that wasn't always the case.)
>

Normally those versions already carry the latest version of postgres at
their release time, right? So it's not like they are without postgres, or
are stuck with a really old version?

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