[Pkg-postgresql-public] Postgresql & libpq 9.2 in backports?

[Christoph Berg]

Re: Whitmer, Ray David 2013-03-26 <80AD5451CC41E7469361BF6B1FC38D3414856D44A4 at MX33A.corp.emc.com>
> Is there some archived discussion that I can read to understand why 9.2 is not a candidate for either of these? I read the documents I found on the backports site, etc.  which got my hopes up, but obviously those are quite generic.

I'm not aware of a concise description of stuff. To Debian people,
the way it works is just a natural extension of how we release. (I'll
prod the backports people to put something in the FAQ there.)

Basically it works like this:

* you are installing backports because something in stable is too old
* stuff from the next Debian version gets backported (from testing)
* this is to ensure you can upgrade to the next stable version, i.e.
  backport packages must exist in the next version, and must not be
  newer than the packages in there
* we are currently freezing the next version for release, so no new
  packages get added to wheezy
* this means wheezy will keep 9.1 (what was the newest PostgreSQL
  version at the time of freezing)
* this means there will be no 9.2 in squeeze-backports either.

There is the squeeze-backports-sloppy suite which has relaxed
requirements, but as we have set up apt.postgresql.org anyway, we will
direct users there than having to maintain yet another series of
identical packages in another place.

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt/FAQ should also answer some parts
of this question.

Christoph
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