Hi Markus, Markus Wanner [2008-10-06 17:34 +0200]: > Note that these are bugfixes only and backporting those is certainly as > much work as supporting a new major version. Often enough, this should > just mean upgrading the sources, without having to adjust anything > debian specific. Right. The Debian packages are done in a way that almost all the packaging/integration/upgrade/configuration logic is in postgresql-common, and the postgresql-X.Y packages just ship the "bare bits". When there is a new upstream release, I upgrade the source package to the new tarball, adapt the patches (which is most of the time a no-op), build it (which will run the upstream test suite), install them, run the postgresql-common integration test suite (which exercises pretty much everything you can do with the package), and upload if all goes well. That process takes roughly 15 minutes of work time if you are experienced with the package (plus half an hour to wait for p-common's test suite). So it's not a lot of work, but it must be done regularly and in time. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
