Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Dropping postgresql 8.3 for squeeze
Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> writes:
> Dimitri Fontaine [2009-12-30 10:52 +0100]:
>> That's why I proposed having a single binary package for any extension,
>> embedding support for more than one major version of PostgreSQL. That
>> would match how the code is maintained.
>
> That would be a major regression wrt. upgrades, though, since an
> upgrade from e. g. etch (8.1) to lenny (8.3) would upgrade
> postgresql-foo and thus the 8.1 extension wouldn't be available any
> more. With postgresql-foo-{8.1,8.3} you can install both side by side.
Yeah. I'm too much into trying to have this deprecation policy in order
to have all upstream maintained debian packages into debian stable it
seems.
Let's pursue the debian/control.in all automated build-depends and
dynamic binary packages list idea then.
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dim
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