Markus Wanner wrote:
> Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > Alright, so it was actually my own fault to have done the pg-8.2
> > backports, and I'm sorry for have followed the request to do so.
>
> Don't be sorry. I still appreciate having an up to date Postgres version
> available on etch. (And I still think it's the right thing to support
> multiple major versions.)
If there are no backported packages for any given Postgres major
version, what will happen is that a lot of people will be forced to
build them from source, which is a lot worse. (There is a reason why
PGDG provides RPM for all major versions, for a lot of Redhat
distributions -- people do want them).
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