On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 22:20, Tom Lane wrote:
> > My object is to get 7.4.1 working on all the Debian architectures.
>
> I'd have been more willing to buy into that goal if you'd been working
> on it during the 7.4 beta test cycle. I gather from what you are saying
> that you couldn't, because Debian provides essentially no infrastructure
> for testing package portability in advance of official releases. That
> seems like a rather serious misjudgement on their part ... maybe you
> could lobby to get it corrected?
It isn't as bad as that normally. If I put a package in unstable, it
will (in the absence of a later upgrade) eventually make its way into a
stable release. Therefore it would be inappropriate for me to put
anything less than a later beta release of PostgreSQL there. This time,
there was a long-standing blockage in moving from unstable to testing
caused by the interaction of several fundamental packages (such as libc6
and perl) with release-critical bugs, so we were asked not to do uploads
that might compound the problem by (potentially) introducing new RC
bugs. Therefore all the 7.4 releases went to experimental instead. The
logjam only cleared in time for me to put 7.4.1 in unstable.
Unfortunately, this meant that packages didn't get built for other
architectures unless someone using those architectures did a build from
source, which apparently didn't happen with hppa.
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