Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Dropping postgresql 8.3 for squeeze
- To: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>
- Cc: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>, debian-release@lists.debian.org, pkg-postgresql-public@lists.alioth.debian.org
- Subject: Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Dropping postgresql 8.3 for squeeze
- From: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:59:02 +0100
- Message-id: <20091230185902.GF2430@piware.de>
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Dimitri Fontaine [2009-12-30 14:17 +0100]:
> The problem for the maintainer is having to edit a package, hence do
> some testing and QA again, when there's absolutely NO value in doing so,
> neither for the maintainer, the extension or its users.
That's only true if the change is to drop a supported version. If one
is added (like a new major version is packaged), then you do need to
adapt your package and test etc., since it will most likely not even
build against the newer server version.
Martin
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