Re: Updating debian/control at build time

2011-04-26 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
ed by the extension sources, and the supported-version script that will only output the debian supported ones, but will add to the list any version you have installed locally. Regards, -- Dimitri Fontaine PostgreSQL DBA, Architecte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian

Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Dropping postgresql 8.3 for squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Roger Leigh writes: > I'll adopt whatever the consensus is once agreed upon in my > postgresql-debversion package. I can also put in conditionals Good news, welcome aboard! > to make it build with older versions again, but I'd like a > pointer to an example to see what's needed to conditionally

Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Dropping postgresql 8.3 for squeeze

2009-12-30 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Martin Pitt writes: > Dimitri Fontaine [2009-12-30 10:52 +0100]: >> That's why I proposed having a single binary package for any extension, >> embedding support for more than one major version of PostgreSQL. That >> would match how the code is maintained. > > That

Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Dropping postgresql 8.3 for squeeze

2009-12-30 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Gerfried Fuchs writes: >> If Python version changes, a binNMU is triggered on affected packages, >> which is damn faster and more efficient than mass filling bug reports. >> Without a line change to the modules sources. >> >> I do not see why this is not doable for PostgreSQL. > > In this case y

Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Dropping postgresql 8.3 for squeeze

2009-12-30 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Roger Leigh writes: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:52:27AM +0100, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: >> That's why I proposed having a single binary package for any extension, >> embedding support for more than one major version of PostgreSQL. That >> would match how the code is m

Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Dropping postgresql 8.3 for squeeze

2009-12-30 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Martin Pitt writes: > I think what you have in mind is already there. Calling > /usr/share/postgresql-common/supported-versions will print out a list > of major versions which are supported on the current release > (Debian/Ubuntu). I maintain that to provide correct debconf obsoletion > messages o

Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Dropping postgresql 8.3 for squeeze

2009-12-28 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Gerfried Fuchs writes: > that postgresql actually _is_ pretty unique here indeed. Well, can you say that the kernel package currently in stable, apparently 2.6.26, is still maintained by its upstream? I guess there's a debian team able to maintain it independantly? > And it seems to > me that (

Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Dropping postgresql 8.3 for squeeze

2009-12-28 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Stephen Frost writes: > * Dimitri Fontaine (dfonta...@hi-media.com) wrote: >> So ideally the extensions packaging should not have to be edited at all >> and produce binaries for all supported PostgreSQL version. Supported by >> the debian release which is building the package

Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Dropping postgresql 8.3 for squeeze

2009-12-28 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Stephen Frost writes: > Nah, that's fine, someone else can and will maintain it properly if he's > not willing to. Of course, I'm curious as to just what extension this > is, since I might be that 'someone else'. Well, I'll still be using them as debian packages, so hopefully you will just have

Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Dropping postgresql 8.3 for squeeze

2009-12-28 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Gerfried Fuchs writes: > Erm, the extensions need only to be available for the same set of > postgres versions we release. Why do we *need* to have the extensions > available for postgres versions we never released? If you don't mean > that, why would you upgrade the extensions then when you don'

Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Dropping postgresql 8.3 for squeeze

2009-12-28 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Luk Claes 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 un

Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Dropping postgresql 8.3 for squeeze

2009-12-07 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Hi, Martin Pitt writes: > We currently have PostgreSQL 8.3 and 8.4 in sid/testing. Just as in > Lenny we only want to support the latest major release in squeeze, and > let the postgresql-common architecture handle upgrades. With the > freeze being three months out, we should now start to cle