Re: Updating libpqxx to 8.0.1

Re: Bradford Boyle
> There is a new major version (8.x) of libpqxx available and I have spent
> a bit of time over the past couple of days looking at what would be
> involved in updating the Debian package to this new version. Below you
> will find a summary of my findings and some initial work that I have
> done to prepare for packaging the new version of libpqxx. I don't think
> it makes sense to update the package just yet since a couple of reverse
> dependencies need to be updated upstream and in Debian in order to
> support building and linking against libpxx 8.x. I wanted to share my
> findings here and ask if there is anything that I have overlooked in my
> investigation.

Hi Bradford,

thanks for working on this!

I think we should upload the new version to experimental. That way, we
don't immediately break things but maintainers can pull it from there
to check their packages.

> * sqlsmith
> * Requires the most extensive set of changes to support compiling
> against libpqxx 8+
> * Submitted an initial PR to upstream
> * https://github.com/anse1/sqlsmith/pull/63

I can take care of that part, the author is a colleague.
(pgconf.dev is next week, not sure if I'll have time before it.)

Christoph