Markus Wanner wrote: > Hi, > > Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> 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). > > Uh.. in case that didn't get clear: I've already done the backports of > Postgres 8.2.9 and 8.2.10 for debian etch. You can get these packages > from the temporary repository here: http://www.bluegap.ch/debian/ Not having followed the whole discussion here.. But if location is the only issue, we could perhaps provide a repository on the postgresql.org servers for this, in case Debian does not want it on their official ones? //Magnus
