Hi Elizabeth,
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Elizabeth Bevilacqua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On 2/21/08, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > No you are misunderstanding Debian. Debian says that "as of testing" 8.2
> > is deprecated. That is *not* anywhere near close to stable or
> supported.
>
> Just to jump in here as part of the team who is working to package
> ledger-smb officially in Debian[0] - this 8.3 problem is a big one for
> us. 8.3 is the default for testing, which will be frozen for a stable
> release later this year (so I guess it depends on how "close to
> stable" we're talking). As of right now it's going to be tough
> (impossible?) for us to get ledgersmb into the next stable Debian
> release if 8.3 isn't supported prior to the freeze. I'm not saying
> that we expect focused development in this area to meet this goal,
> it's more of just an FYI from our end.
First, thanks for helping with the Debian packaging. It is really
appreciated.
Here is my sense of the concensus view relating to LSMB and PostgreSQL 8.3:
LSMB 1.2 may have some issues with implicit casts being removed. Current
branches/1.2 and the validation tarball for 1.2.13 fix all known issues (and
any I could find on a quick review of the code) but because this is a pretty
fundamental change on the part of PostgreSQL, I am not going to guarantee
there won't be other bugs which surface. Fortunately, any bugs of this sort
are quick to solve, so if you report them, we will fix them,
LSMB 1.3 may have similar issues and we are working on this too. 1.3 will
be supported on 8.3 with the tsearch2 compatibility modules and the same
understanding that any bugs which occur will be addressed and corrected as
they are reported.
LSMB 1.4 will move all the tsearch stuff to 8.3's native framework and is
expected to be such that we can recommend 8.3 at that point.
So use of LSMB and Pg8.3 is supported but we caution people about possible
issues. I would expect a *lot* of other PostgreSQL-based software to have
compatibility issues with 8.3 as well.
Hope this helps,
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