| From: | Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | LTS (Re: minimum Meson version) |
| Date: | 2025-06-23 12:10:08 |
| Message-ID: | aFlEIOJcDxk-JCTk@msg.df7cb.de |
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Re: Tom Lane
> I checked Debian and SUSE and noted that their "extended support"
> windows are a lot shorter than RHEL's, just two or three years.
> So maybe we shouldn't buy into RHEL's five-year window.
Fwiw, what we are doing for apt.postgresql.org and Debian is to
support LTS which extends Debian (old)stable to 5 years:
That loosely matches the 5 year support window for Ubuntu's LTS
releases, so the oldest Debian and Ubuntu releases often get removed
from apt.pg.o around the same time. (It also matches PG's own 5 years
of support, so there's rarely any extra backpatching to do.)
We are not supporting ELTS for either distro. After around 5 years,
supporting all the various extensions starts getting painful because
compatibility issues with new upstream versions accumulate. Current
top issues are "cmake too old" and "pybuild-plugin-pyproject missing",
but it has been worse in the past. There are people keeping the server
packages patched for Debian ((old)old)oldoldstable, though:
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Extended
Christoph
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