Re: pgsql: configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I don't see the branch point for REL8_3_STABLE - has that been done? I
>>>> thought it would happen at the same time as we tagged the release.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> No, we will branch later.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Still not there.
>>
>> We need this to be created before buildfarm members can start testing 8.3.
>>
>> I still don't see why we wait to create the branch after tagging the
>> release. There doesn't seem to be any point.
>>
>
> We need an 8.3 tag, but not a branch.  Is there no tag?
>
> We don't branch because we want to apply 8.3 fixes to CVS HEAD for a
> while, to avoid double-patching.
>
>

I give up. We seem to look for ways to make things more difficult
sometimes. We are hampering the buildfarm, and keeping the tree frozen,
and thus preventing feature commits, on the off chance that there will
be some bug fix that we don't want to double patch. We backport fixes
all the time. Why is it such a big deal?  Are we waiting for magic pixie
dust?

When we released 8.2, my archives show that HEAD was stamped as 8.3devel
the same day. That also doesn't seem to have been done yet, but anyway,
the branch for _STABLE must have been done before that time.

cheers

andrew