[Pkg-postgresql-public] 9.4 beta2 in unstable?

[Christoph Berg]

Re: Martin Pitt 2014-07-05 <20140705104531.GA3339 at piware.de>
> > 9.4 should be releasing around September, so that's before the
> > announced Jessie freeze in November. However, transitions should be
> > started (or done) around September.
> >
> > I would like to ship Jessie with 9.4, so we could start the transition
> > by uploading 9.4 beta2 (or rc1) to unstable once it is out. 9.3 would
> > be removed once everything has transitioned, but suppored-versions
> > would change to 9.4-only rightaway.
>
> That would essentially commit all the packaged extensions to get
> ported to 9.4 in time. Most will probably just work as usual, but
> there's always those "special" ones like PL/R or PostGIS which take
> longer to port. Do you have a gut feeling how much 9.4's internal
> interfaces changed to 9.3, i. e. whether it's realistic to port all
> extensions in time?

I added 9.4 (and 9.5) jobs to the pgapt jenkins some weeks ago and
built some modules. 9 green, 2 yellow (built but autopkgtests fail),
and 6 reds don't look too bad. Some of the failures are because the
packages don't have 9.4 (or "all") in debian/pgversions yet, or other
trivial problems. I'll investigate those.

Generally I think 9.4 won't be a big porting hurdle, but of course
individual packages have, well, individual problems. pl/R isn't really
special, that's one of the "green" ones. PostGIS is of course much
more involved. Markus?

> Otherwise, sounds good to me.
> 
> Thanks, and have a good weekend!

I'll start by uploading pg-common to experimental with 9.4 added to
the supported-versions (with 9.3 still default so we don't have to
roll back anything).

I'll poke the PG people if there's any ETA for beta2.

Christoph
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