On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:06:38PM +0100, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > 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. I'll adopt whatever the consensus is once agreed upon in my postgresql-debversion package. I can also put in conditionals to make it build with older versions again, but I'd like a pointer to an example to see what's needed to conditionally build < 8.4. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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