Re: Backport of CVE-2024-10978 fix to older pgsql versions (11, 9.6, and 9.4)

On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 10:50:10AM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > Maybe, if we were doing an only-critical-fixes LTS release series,
> > it'd be easier for downstream outfits to consume that instead of
> > cherry-picking security fixes.  I'm just speculating though.
> > It's entirely possible that packagers would ignore our opinions
> > and keep on cherry-picking only security fixes, in which case
> > we'd be doing a lot of work for little return.
> 
> ... if there were a PostgreSQL LTS series, Debian would probably use it.
> 
> Overall, I think the current 5-year support window is good enough.
> I don't see PostgreSQL supporting 10 years, so ELTS efforts will
> always have to do some patching on their own.

Thanks, that was very helpful.

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