Re: Time to upgrade buildfarm coverage for some EOL'd OSes?

On 08.10.21 00:40, Tom Lane wrote:
> As far as that goes, I thought we had a policy against auto-detecting
> user-visible features.  From memory, the rationale goes like "if you
> want feature X you should say so, so that the build will fail if we
> can't provide it".  Thus we make you say something like --with-openssl
> even though it wouldn't be particularly hard to auto-detect.  Peter E.
> can probably advocate more strongly for this approach.

Yeah, there used to be RPMs shipped that accidentally omitted readline 
support.