Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 22:46, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr> wrote:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> Less narrow-minded interpretation of GPL requirements, perhaps.
>> (And yes, we have real lawyers on staff considering these issues.)
>
> If we really believe that the debian interpretation of the licence issue
> here is moot, surely the easiest action is to offer a debian package
> repository hosted in the postgresql.org infrastructure.
>
> That would also allow us to maintain all our currently supported
> versions and choose to consider reaching EOL of one of them where it's
> still included in a stable debian releases.  Debian folks can't do that
> and as a result they will only ship one major version at a time, which
> certainly is a shame.

Yeah, I've been thinking about that before, for other reasons. It's
fallen down so far on the fact that our current packager (Martin)
isn't too interested in doing it, and he's been the one with the
cycles and experience...

Are you volunteering? ;)

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