Re: Updating Ubuntu package info

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:16, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 09:06, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>>> Le 04/02/2010 04:23, Greg Smith a écrit :
>>>> Problem #3:  Given the general popularity of Ubuntu and what I'm seeing
>>>> in the version history here, I think it would also be appropriate to
>>>> warn that versions of pgAdmin3 before the upcoming 1.12 do not support
>>>> connecting to PostgreSQL 9.0 databases (the '"column "datconfig" does
>>>> not exist' issue) on this page too.
>>>
>>> We can do that. That's not something we usually do, this kind of issue
>>> happens for every release of PostgreSQL and pgAdmin. You need the latest
>>> major pgAdmin release to work with the latest major PostgreSQL release.
>>> Moreover, since 1.10, they even have a message box telling the user than
>>> PostgreSQL releases after 8.4 could be incompatible with their pgAdmin
>>> release. 1.12 will have the same for post-9.0 releases.
>>
>> I think this one may be big enough to consider backpatching just this one check.
>>
>> Not for Ubuntu, but for users in general :-) IIRC it's the first time
>> we die so completely and early - previously at least some things would
>> work fine :)
>>
>> However, do we know if Ubuntu even picks up the minor releases?
>
> We don't produce minor releases of old versions so backpatching seems
> a little pointless.

We still produce minor releases to 1.10, no? I certainly don't suggest
we back-patch past that, but we do backpatch to the *latest* stable
branch.

>>>> I think somebody (and I'm
>>>> getting that feeling it's going to be me) should figure out how to build
>>>> a backport of the pgadmin HEAD that goes at least a couple of versions
>>>> back to help out with this.  I personally really need a PG9.0 compatible
>>>> Jaunty build for example.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I can tell you that this "someone" is not me. I don't have the time to
>>> work on this.
>>
>> Yeah. Having a "pgadmin-daily" PPA for Ubuntu would certainly be
>> pretty neat, but so far nobody has volunteered the time...
>
> The one thing we don't want is a vendor patched version of pgAdmin
> getting out there. Older versions of Ubuntu (and to a lesser extent
> Debian) caused us extreme amounts of pain due to vendor patches in wx
> that basically broke it. I don't want them doing the same with our
> code, no matter how simple the patch may seem

Yeah, +1. Certainly don't want that. But I don't think that's what
Gregs suggesting.

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