On ons, 2011-12-21 at 11:58 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> tag 646700 moreinfo
> thanks
>
> Hello Peter,
>
> Peter Eisentraut [2011-10-26 13:55 +0300]:
> > There ought to be a way to override what PostgreSQL versions are
> > considered supported, for local builds, testing, etc.
> >
> > One idea would be to support a file debian/pgversions_override. This
> > would be easy to merge from a local VCS, for example.
>
> You mean that pgversions_override would override the list of
> installed/available postgresql versions? If you do that, the package
> would just fail to build, though?
The use case is: In my organization, I need to maintain packages
covering, say, PostgreSQL 8.4, 9.0, 9.1. To create such a package, I
download the package from Debian unstable or testing, add build
dependencies on postgresql-server-dev-{8.4,9.0,9.1}, then do the magic
override that is being discussion here, and build. That's very simple
and maintainable. The alternative currently ... well, doesn't exist,
short of monkey patching the build tools.
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