| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch> |
| Cc: | 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: | 2008-10-06 15:52:19 |
| Message-ID: | 20081006155219.GE4304@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Markus Wanner wrote:
> Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > Alright, so it was actually my own fault to have done the pg-8.2
> > backports, and I'm sorry for have followed the request to do so.
>
> Don't be sorry. I still appreciate having an up to date Postgres version
> available on etch. (And I still think it's the right thing to support
> multiple major versions.)
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).
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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