On 16 February 2016 at 20:15, Pavel Kajaba <pkaj...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello pg-hackers, > > I need advice about postgresql-jdbc driver. > > Current version in Fedora is behind latest version of postgresql-jdbc > (1200 vs 1207). > > We are trying to package latest version into Fedora, but there are > dependencies, which are not useless in Fedora (waffle-jna) Which *are* useless in Fedora. I know that was just an editing mistake. It's a library used in PgJDBC for windows SSPI support. I don't really see the problem here. If your packaging policy prevents you from incorporating it, patch it out. It's use is simple, self-contained and already optional. > and ones which we are not 100% open source (osgi-enterprise). We talked > with upstream quite intensively but not been able to find any solution > which would meet our requirements. > ... which you should probably outline here, because otherwise nobody will understand the problem. > We think that it's not a good, when open-source project depending on > packages, which licence is not 100% clear. > Well, frankly, that's Java. So long as they're soft-dependencies I really don't care. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
