Re: Updating IPC::Run in CI?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Updating IPC::Run in CI?
Date: 2025-09-22 20:24:08
Message-ID: 2966213.1758572648@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> To more explicitly defend my position here: I can request updates from
> package maintainers for <insert OS here>, but if the end result is
> that our LTS distributions will still be lagging, there's not much
> point. I'd rather bake the latest IPC::Run into our CI, and I'm happy
> to contribute code and cycles towards that.

+1. Maybe we can stop doing this at some future time when all those
OSes have absorbed an up-to-date IPC::Run, but for the near term we're
merely exposing ourselves to known failures.

regards, tom lane

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