[Pkg-postgresql-public] postgresql 8.2 packaging

[Martin Pitt]

Gerfried Fuchs [2009-02-28 20:31 +0100]:
>  This is what I wanted to raise, too. For a cleaner upgrade path I would
> suggest that for whatever version we want to have as default in squeeze
> release we also should have 8.3 still around at that time so that
> someone can do an upgrade to squeeze, install the new (propably 8.5?)
> packages and do the pg_upgradecluster.

I repeated this like 3 times now: If you install lenny and 8.3,
upgrade to squeeze, and install 8.5, then your -8.3 package will not
magically disappear, but stay around for pg_upgradecluster processing.

If you install squeeze from scratch, you can't install -8.3, because
it's not in the squeeze archive. This is a feature, not a bug.

We cannot support 8.3 in squeeze (or 8.1 in lenny) because upstream
releases are not supported that long. Even if it would "just about"
work (align two Debian releases with one upstream support cycle), this
is first highly unpredictable (due to the non-time based nature of
Debian releases), and also I don't see any reason why we should, given
Debian's long release and support cycles.

Martin
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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
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