Re: Ubuntu: Remove Wily, add Yakkety

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> wrote:

> Re: Magnus Hagander 2016-10-23 <CABUevEwhNKNu3Oes02NMwF7tFA=--_
> KTBSts7uiL9M7YSV4GvA(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
> > To be over-clear, that leaves xenial, trusty and precise on the Ubuntu
> > download page.
>
> Ack.
>
> > > 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?
>
> The latest PG version released before freeze time, which is more
> likely the second-latest version for the NN.10 releases, given PG
> releases around September, and .10 is frozen some time before it:
>

Right. But they still receive a PostgreSQL version that's new enough that
it will have a longer "support life" than the OS version itself.

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