RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: JDBC rpms (RHEL 8-10) version >= 42.7.6 dependency modification request

Thank you very much.

Paul Kennedy
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-----Original Message-----
From: Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2025 03:11
To: Kennedy, Paul <paul.kennedy@frostbank.com>; pgsql-pkg-yum@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: JDBC rpms (RHEL 8-10) version >= 42.7.6 dependency modification request


Hi Paul,

On Tue, 2025-11-04 at 22:41 +0000, Kennedy, Paul wrote:
> As since the 42.7.6 changelog the Community PostgreSQL JDBC driver is
> compiled against JDK21 by default,
> https://jdbc.postgresql.org/changelogs/2025-05-28-42/
> and the current sole dependency group for this RPM is "java-headless",
> I would like to request the following dependency modifications to the
> RPM spec:
> RHEL10 - "java-headless" OR "java-21-headless"
> RHEL9  - "java-headless" OR "java-21-headless"
> RHEL8  - "java-headless" OR "java-11-headless" OR "java-17-headless"
> OR "java-21-headless"
> 
> While RHEL 9 and 10 include up to JDK17 within the provides group
> "java-headless", RHEL8 only includes JDK8/1.8 as a version in the
> spec.
> 
> If this won't work, I would be curious to know why.

Created https://github.com/pgdg-packaging/pgdg-rpms/issues/110 to track
this issue. I feel like I should modernise all packages requiring Java,
so added the list there.

> 
> Additionally and separately,
> JDBC version 42.7.8 has been out since 9/18, but the latest packages
> in the community repos are 42.7.7.
> It isn't a security release.

This is clearly an oversight as I pushed changes to git more than a
month ago. Built packages. Will sync them later today. Thanks.

Regards,

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Devrim Gündüz
Open Source Solution Architect, PostgreSQL Major Contributor
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