Luk Claes <l...@debian.org> writes: > This would not work without rebuilding everything in testing which would > create a chicken and egg problem: we want to have everything tested and > build in unstable before migrating it to testing...
Ok. So what you want is automated-without-rebuild packages migration from unstable to testing to stable (at release time for this last step). What we have now is unstable and testing supporting more than one PostgreSQL version at the same time, but stable only one version, for fear of having to support the code in debian with no help for upstream, who choosed to support their major versions only for 5 years. http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Release_Support_Policy What we have too is extensions that are source compatible to several PostgreSQL major versions, typically working from 8.X onwards. What I want to find is a way for us extension packagers to implement automatic support for several PostgreSQL major versions packages without editing our packages and desuporting versions at stable release time. This might look strange for the debian project itself but please consider that switching a production server from stable to next stable seldom means upgrading PostgreSQL alongside. So we *need* to have the extensions available for old-major somewhere too, like backports or some other volunteer provided hosting. Providing the extensions for 8.3 for stable when this version is no more the official one should not require volunteers to edit or remake the packaging. Can we get to some solution, pretty please? I can understand you don't like my suggestion on the grounds that you want no rebuild between testing and stable. But we need to find a way. Regards, -- dim PS: I surely do not intend to fix my packages by desuporting 8.3, even if that means they don't get into squeeze when it's labelled stable. Having them hosted outside of debian will be less work and maintenance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org