Re: PG20 Minimum Dependency Thread

On Thu, 16 Jul 2026 at 18:54, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> wrote:
> Yes, everything should be in-distro. We can make exceptions and supply
> backports via apt.postgresql.org, but they should be rare. And really
> only be for isolated things like I've just started supplying updated
> geos libraries for postgis. I wouldn't want to backport a core package
> like python.

Just to be totally clear on what I meant: It's not about the "python"
package. I'm specifically talking about "python3-pytest" package.
Pytest is a test-runner for Python. It's fully written using python.
The "python3-pytest" package contains a fixed pytest version. However
there are newer pytest versions available on pip that are compatible
with the "python" package shipped by Debian.

It sounds like us supporting the official python3-pytest version is
the heavily preferred approach.