Re: apt.postgresql.org news

Looks like a lot of very good moves!
Thank you Christoph for your countless contributions in getting greater
PostgreSQL support in debian/ubuntu.

Cédric

On 17/02/2025 15:57, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a few infrastructure bits have changed for apt.postgresql.org:
>
> # New Jenkins host
>
> The Jenkins build server for apt.postgresql.org had been hosted by
> DG-i (https://www.dg-i.net/) since the very start of the project in
> 2011, and it served us very well. Thanks to DG-i for that!
>
> To centralize project resources more, it has now been moved to a
> machine administrated by the PostgreSQL Sysadmins. The new URL is:
>
> https://jengus.postgresql.org/
>
> # New arm64 build host
>
> On similar news, the arm64 build host (previously provided by Huawei)
> has been moved to postgresql.org resources where it is closer to the
> Jenkins and master repository hosts, hopefully resolving some of the
> networking issues we have been seeing.
>
> # Reconsidering s390x
>
> The current s390x build host has poor IO and CPU performance,
> frequently making otherwise good package builds and tests fail with
> random timeouts. We are seeing if this can be improved - if not, we
> will likely drop the s390x architecture from apt.postgresql.org.
>
> # "pgapt" git moved to salsa.debian.org
>
> The scripts and glue code driving apt.postgresql.org were hosted in a
> git repository on git.postgresql.org, where it was some kind of weird
> outlier since pretty much every other Debian packaging git repository
> is hosted on salsa.debian.org. The git repository has been moved
> there, making it more accessible for contributors to PostgreSQL on
> Debian:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/postgresql/apt.postgresql.org/
>
> # Redmine closing down
>
> There was a pgapt project in a postgresql.org Redmine instance. It was
> never widely announced, and only received a few issue reports here and
> there. As the whole instance is being decommissioned, the remaining
> issue reports from there have been moved to other bug trackers. Users
> wishing to report bugs, feature requests and other bits are welcome to
> use these channels:
>
> * the pgsql-pkg-debian mailing list (https://www.postgresql.org/list/pgsql-pkg-debian/)
> * the Debian bug tracking system (https://bugs.debian.org)
> * https://salsa.debian.org/postgresql/apt.postgresql.org/-/issues
> * issues on individual projects on https://salsa.debian.org/postgresql/
>
> # Ubuntu plucky 25.04 support added
>
> Plucky has not been released yet by Ubuntu, but packages for it are
> already being built.
>
> Christoph
>
>

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