Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-19 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 02:35:42PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: /* Get the OpenSSL structure associated with a connection. Returns NULL for * unencrypted connections or if any other TLS library is in use. */ extern void *PQgetssl(PGconn *conn); We are under no compulsion to emulate

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-19 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 07:42:20PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: ODBC uses it as well. It really uses it for communication. As far as Google Code Search can it's the only one that does. But if the intention is to do it by adding new functions, we can and let the ODBC guys sort it out

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-19 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 02/19/2011 01:42 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 02:35:42PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: /* Get the OpenSSL structure associated with a connection. Returns NULL for * unencrypted connections or if any other TLS library is in use. */ extern void *PQgetssl(PGconn

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-19 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:42:20AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Could we provide an abstraction layer over whatever SSL library is in use with things like read/write/poll? Maybe that's what you had in mind for the passthrough mode. The suggested interface was as follows. It basically

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On lör, 2011-02-19 at 13:55 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: If you plug in a libpq that was compiled against, say, NSS under a psql that's expecting OpenSSL you'll get a null back instead of a pointer to an SSL object, but then that would be a silly thing to do. Not so silly if you consider

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-18 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 02:01, charles.mcdev...@emc.com wrote: On 02/17/2011 12:34 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 02/17/2011 12:13 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: FWIW, the only interactively usable version of psql for windows I know of is the one that runs under Cygwin. It

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 02/17/2011 04:09 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 04:33:19PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Maybe we really should consider moving to NSS insread? http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ If it solves the license problem, it is well supported etc.. For

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-18 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes: On 02/17/2011 04:09 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: This is supported. Where it goes wonky is that this also has to work when the connection is via SSL. So libpq provides a function to return (via a void*) a pointer to the OpenSSL structure so that

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-18 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 16:51, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes: On 02/17/2011 04:09 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: This is supported. Where it goes wonky is that this also has to work when the connection is via SSL. So libpq provides a function

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-18 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes: On 02/17/2011 04:09 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: This is supported. Where it goes wonky is that this also has to work when the connection is via SSL. So libpq provides a function to return (via a void*) a pointer to the

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Andrea Suisani
On 02/10/2011 11:34 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Hello, Per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607109 It seems we may have a problem to consider. As far as I know, we are the only major platform that supports libedit but our default is readline. Unfortunately readline is not

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 05:23, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 22:53 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: Stephen Frost wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. * Greg Stark (gsst...@mit.edu) wrote: Well for what it's worth we want to support both. At least the

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 05:23, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 22:53 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: Stephen Frost wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. * Greg Stark

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Greg Stark
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Jason Earl je...@notengoamigos.org wrote: This will be a significant advantage for        further free software development, and some projects will decide        to make software free in order to use these libraries. You've misread this paragraph. Postgres is

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Greg Stark
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Stephen Frost sfr...@snowman.net wrote: * Greg Stark (gsst...@mit.edu) wrote: Well for what it's worth we want to support both. At least the project philosophy has been that commercial derivatives are expected and acceptable so things like EDB's products, or

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:49, Dave Page dp...@pgadmin.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 05:23, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 22:53 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: Stephen Frost

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:49, Dave Page dp...@pgadmin.org wrote: Depends on your definition of distribute (and what part you are specifically referring to). There's no tarball, but the installer sources are on

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Dave Page wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:49, Dave Page dp...@pgadmin.org wrote: Depends on your definition of distribute (and what part you are specifically referring to). There's no tarball, but the installer

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Stephen Frost wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. * Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Probably readline but does it matter? We distribute the source to the click installers. Well, there is what the community is risking, and there is what the

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Stephen Frost
* Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote: Well, we are going down a slippery slope if we think the click-through installers are OK to use readline and distribute because we supply the source for the installers --- that then requires anyone using the binaries (or libraries) in those installers

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Stephen Frost
* Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote: I just posted on this. The risk is to people using the packages --- the packages themselves include the source as an option, so they are fine, but everyone using those packages would also be required to distribute source, which is a restriction we

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Stephen Frost wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. * Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote: Well, we are going down a slippery slope if we think the click-through installers are OK to use readline and distribute because we supply the source for the installers --- that then requires

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Stephen Frost wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. * Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote: I just posted on this. The risk is to people using the packages --- the packages themselves include the source as an option, so they are fine, but everyone using those packages would also be

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Stephen Frost
* Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote: psql used to use the native Windows line editing ability --- has that changed? *that* I couldn't tell you.. Thanks, Stephen signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 02/17/2011 11:22 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: psql used to use the native Windows line editing ability --- has that changed? When did it? Ad what native windows line editing ability are you referring to? cheers andrew -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 02/17/2011 11:22 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: psql used to use the native Windows line editing ability --- has that changed? When did it? Ad what native windows line editing ability are you referring to? There is native Windows editing like arrows, etc and

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 02/17/2011 11:44 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 02/17/2011 11:22 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: psql used to use the native Windows line editing ability --- has that changed? When did it? Ad what native windows line editing ability are you referring to? There is native

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 02/17/2011 11:44 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 02/17/2011 11:22 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: psql used to use the native Windows line editing ability --- has that changed? When did it? Ad what native windows line editing ability are you

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 02/17/2011 11:58 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 02/17/2011 11:44 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 02/17/2011 11:22 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: psql used to use the native Windows line editing ability --- has that changed? When did it? Ad what native

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 02/17/2011 11:58 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 02/17/2011 11:44 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 02/17/2011 11:22 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: psql used to use the native Windows line editing ability --- has that changed?

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Stephen Frost
* Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote: OK, I was only responding to Stephen Frost who said psql did not behave like other Windows apps. I don't actually run psql or PG on Windows at all, I just presumed it did since you were bringing up concerns about it in the Windows installers. Ah well,

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 02/17/2011 12:13 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: FWIW, the only interactively usable version of psql for windows I know of is the one that runs under Cygwin. It can be build with readline and works as expected. Uh, don't we have a psql built via MSVC? Doesn't it work interactively? Not if

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Stephen Frost wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. * Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote: I just posted on this. The risk is to people using the packages --- the packages themselves include the source as an option, so they are fine, but everyone using those packages would also be

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 02/17/2011 12:13 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: FWIW, the only interactively usable version of psql for windows I know of is the one that runs under Cygwin. It can be build with readline and works as expected. Uh, don't we have a psql built via MSVC? Doesn't it

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 10:49 +, Dave Page wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net wrote: Probably readline but does it matter? We distribute the source to the click installers. Actually, we don't. We used to, but we don't at this point. Depends

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 02/17/2011 12:34 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 02/17/2011 12:13 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: FWIW, the only interactively usable version of psql for windows I know of is the one that runs under Cygwin. It can be build with readline and works as expected. Uh, don't we

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 04:33:19PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Maybe we really should consider moving to NSS insread? http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ If it solves the license problem, it is well supported etc.. For the record, which library you choose only matters for a

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Charles.McDevitt
On 02/17/2011 12:34 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 02/17/2011 12:13 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: FWIW, the only interactively usable version of psql for windows I know of is the one that runs under Cygwin. It can be build with readline and works as expected. Uh, don't

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: We have code that exists in both psql and the backend (cf src/port/) so I'm not sure this really will satisfy the more rabid GPL partisans. And this whole

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 02/16/2011 12:29 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Robert Haasrobertmh...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Tom Lanet...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: We have code that exists in both psql and the backend (cf src/port/) so I'm not sure this really will satisfy the more

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 12:29 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Can someone take ownership of this, get involved with the libedit folks, get Debian to use their fixes, and solve this problem for us? That is a lot easier said that done. To be frank, I thought it was something that I

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2011-02-14 at 15:01 +0200, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 13:52 +0100, Cédric Villemain wrote: Consider providing debian packages at debian.postgresql.org apt.postgresql.org, please. :) APT is not necessarily tied to Debian, nor is a Debian package repository necessarily

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes: On 02/16/2011 12:29 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Can someone take ownership of this, get involved with the libedit folks, get Debian to use their fixes, and solve this problem for us? You're assuming a fact not in evidence, namely the existence of an

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Greg Stark
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: There appear to be two people working periodically on the upstream NetBSD libedit: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libedit/?sortby=date And a third who periodically packages that at

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 00:28 +, Greg Stark wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: There appear to be two people working periodically on the upstream NetBSD libedit: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libedit/?sortby=date And a third

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com writes: I find it hard to get excited about working to replace the software that has a reasonable license here (readline) rather than trying to eliminate dependence on the one with an unreasonable license (OpenSSL). Hm? The trouble with readline is that it's

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Stark gsst...@mit.edu writes: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: There appear to be two people working periodically on the upstream NetBSD libedit: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libedit/?sortby=date And a third who periodically

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Marko Kreen
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com writes: I find it hard to get excited about working to replace the software that has a reasonable license here (readline) rather than trying to eliminate dependence on the one with an

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Greg Stark
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: In particular, getting rid of use of OpenSSL would not be sufficient to satisfy the most rabid GPL partisans that we were in compliance. Huh? In what way would we not be in compliance? Or rather, what part of the GPL would we

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Stephen Frost
* Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: In particular, getting rid of use of OpenSSL would not be sufficient to satisfy the most rabid GPL partisans that we were in compliance. I've never heard anyone argue that position, don't believe anyone would, and certainly don't agree with it. Whereas,

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 20:53 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: In particular, getting rid of use of OpenSSL would not be sufficient to satisfy the most rabid GPL partisans that we were in compliance. I've never heard anyone argue that position, don't believe

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Greg Stark
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Stephen Frost sfr...@snowman.net wrote: I agree w/ the other responses to this, in particular from Stark, but I just wanted to point out that we're much more likely to come across other GPL-licensed things that we want to support linking against (and who might

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 20:53 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: In particular, getting rid of use of OpenSSL would not be sufficient to satisfy the most rabid GPL partisans that we were in compliance. I've never heard anyone argue

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Greg Stark wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: In particular, getting rid of use of OpenSSL would not be sufficient to satisfy the most rabid GPL partisans that we were in compliance. Huh? In what way would we not be in compliance? Or rather, what

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Greg Stark wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Stephen Frost sfr...@snowman.net wrote: I agree w/ the other responses to this, in particular from Stark, but I just wanted to point out that we're much more likely to come across other GPL-licensed things that we want to support linking

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Stephen Frost
* Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: In particular, getting rid of use of OpenSSL would not be sufficient to satisfy the most rabid GPL partisans that we were in compliance. I've never heard anyone argue that

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Greg Stark
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: Well for what it's worth we want to support both. At least the project philosophy has been that commercial derivatives are expected and acceptable so things like EDB's products, or Greenplums, or for that matter

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Stephen Frost
* Greg Stark (gsst...@mit.edu) wrote: Well for what it's worth we want to support both. At least the project philosophy has been that commercial derivatives are expected and acceptable so things like EDB's products, or Greenplums, or for that matter Pokertracker's all include other proprietary

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Stephen Frost
* Greg Stark (gsst...@mit.edu) wrote: Perhaps we should make configure print a warning for each non-Postgres-license software it's being configured to use with a pointer to the license for the configured. That might make it more obvious to people that while Postges is licensed under a given

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Stephen Frost wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. * Greg Stark (gsst...@mit.edu) wrote: Well for what it's worth we want to support both. At least the project philosophy has been that commercial derivatives are expected and acceptable so things like EDB's products, or Greenplums, or for

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 22:53 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: Stephen Frost wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. * Greg Stark (gsst...@mit.edu) wrote: Well for what it's worth we want to support both. At least the project philosophy has been that commercial derivatives are expected and

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Tom Lane
Stephen Frost sfr...@snowman.net writes: * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: In particular, getting rid of use of OpenSSL would not be sufficient to satisfy the most rabid GPL partisans that we were in compliance. I've never heard anyone argue that position, don't believe anyone would,

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 22:53 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: Stephen Frost wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. * Greg Stark (gsst...@mit.edu) wrote: Well for what it's worth we want to support both. At least the project philosophy has been that commercial

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Stephen Frost
* Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Probably readline but does it matter? We distribute the source to the click installers. Well, there is what the community is risking, and there is what the packagers are risking. Ideally we would make the job easier for the

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Stephen Frost
Jason, * Jason Earl (je...@notengoamigos.org) wrote: Or he could just read this essay from the FSF website: Which is all about the GPL's can't be *more* restrictive requirement. That doesn't apply in this case, sorry. Reading back through the thread from December of 2000, I see the same was

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-16 Thread Jason Earl
On Wed, Feb 16 2011, Tom Lane wrote: Stephen Frost sfr...@snowman.net writes: * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: In particular, getting rid of use of OpenSSL would not be sufficient to satisfy the most rabid GPL partisans that we were in compliance. I've never heard anyone argue that

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-15 Thread Greg Stark
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner ste...@kaltenbrunner.cc wrote: from what I can see upstream libedit actually has utf8 support for a while now (as well as some other fixes) but the debian libedit version (and also the one of other distributions) is way too old for that so

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-15 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
On 02/15/2011 12:37 PM, Greg Stark wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner ste...@kaltenbrunner.cc wrote: from what I can see upstream libedit actually has utf8 support for a while now (as well as some other fixes) but the debian libedit version (and also the one of other

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-15 Thread Bernd Helmle
--On 15. Februar 2011 18:52:04 +0100 Stefan Kaltenbrunner ste...@kaltenbrunner.cc wrote: well I have not actually tested - I was just reading the changelog on http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/ which claims UTF8 support (whatever that means) in the current code drop. I tested

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Markus Wanner
Dimitri, On 02/12/2011 11:18 PM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net writes: Are you volunteering? ;) Once upon a time, I started such an approach, see packages.bluegap.ch. However, I didn't upgrade these packages for quite some time, because I didn't need them anymore

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Markus Wanner mar...@bluegap.ch writes: Once upon a time, I started such an approach, see packages.bluegap.ch. However, I didn't upgrade these packages for quite some time, because I didn't need them anymore for my day job. I received at least two mails thanking me for this service. (And

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Markus Wanner
On 02/14/2011 10:23 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: Hey, wanna join the fun? That'd be awesome :) Sure, I'll try to help. Don't be surprised if that's not too often, though. I currently cannot promise to provide packaging in any kind of timely fashion. :-( Well in fact if you install a

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Cédric Villemain
2011/2/14 Markus Wanner mar...@bluegap.ch: On 02/14/2011 10:23 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: Hey, wanna join the fun?  That'd be awesome :) Sure, I'll try to help.  Don't be surprised if that's not too often, though.  I currently cannot promise to provide packaging in any kind of timely

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Markus Wanner
Cédric, thanks for taking a step back and bringing in the bigger picture. On 02/14/2011 11:57 AM, Cédric Villemain wrote: one way might be to suggest apt-preferences here, I believe. Agreed, might be the cleanest way from a technical POV. Is debian.postgresql.org to host and distribute the

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Markus Wanner
Hi, On 02/10/2011 11:34 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607109 It seems we may have a problem to consider. As far as I know, we are the only major platform that supports libedit but our default is readline. Unfortunately readline is not compatible

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 13:37, Markus Wanner mar...@bluegap.ch wrote: Hi, On 02/10/2011 11:34 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607109 It seems we may have a problem to consider. As far as I know, we are the only major platform that supports libedit

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Cédric Villemain
2011/2/14 Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 13:37, Markus Wanner mar...@bluegap.ch wrote: Hi, On 02/10/2011 11:34 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607109 It seems we may have a problem to consider. As far as I know, we

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 13:52 +0100, Cédric Villemain wrote: Consider providing debian packages at debian.postgresql.org apt.postgresql.org, please. :) -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer Community:

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Cédric Villemain
2011/2/14 Devrim GÜNDÜZ dev...@gunduz.org: On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 13:52 +0100, Cédric Villemain wrote: Consider providing debian packages at debian.postgresql.org apt.postgresql.org, please. :) sure !!! -- Cédric Villemain               2ndQuadrant http://2ndQuadrant.fr/     PostgreSQL :

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello all, thanks Markus for CC'ing me, I'm not on -hackers@. Markus Wanner [2011-02-14 13:37 +0100]: On 02/10/2011 11:34 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607109 Note that the recent discussions happened on bug 608442, in particular

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Markus Wanner
Martin, On 02/14/2011 02:08 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: thanks Markus for CC'ing me, I'm not on -hackers@. Sure. Note that the recent discussions happened on bug 608442, in particular http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608442#30 Thanks for this pointer. Markus Wanner

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Marko Kreen
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Martin Pitt mp...@debian.org wrote: thanks Markus for CC'ing me, I'm not on -hackers@. Markus Wanner [2011-02-14 13:37 +0100]: On 02/10/2011 11:34 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607109 Note that the recent

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Greg Smith
Markus Wanner wrote: Anybody realized that this Debian bug (and several others) got closed in the mean time (Sunday)? According to the changelog [1], Martin Pitt (which I'm CC'ing here, as he might not be aware of this thread, yet) worked around this issue by pre-loading readline via LD_PRELOAD

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Marko Kreen
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes: I'll be happy if you do, but why haven't I haven't noticed, say, RedHat taking this line? Less narrow-minded interpretation of GPL requirements, perhaps. (And yes, we have real

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 02/14/2011 08:27 AM, Greg Smith wrote: Markus Wanner wrote: Anybody realized that this Debian bug (and several others) got closed in the mean time (Sunday)? According to the changelog [1], Martin Pitt (which I'm CC'ing here, as he might not be aware of this thread, yet) worked around this

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Stephen Frost: * Greg Smith (g...@2ndquadrant.com) wrote: -GNU libreadine is certainly never going to add an OpenSSL exemption I really wish they would, that's just them being obnoxious- it's already LGPL, after all.. Source? I've only seen GPLed copies. We wouldn't face this issue with

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Florian Weimer (fwei...@bfk.de) wrote: Source? I've only seen GPLed copies. We wouldn't face this issue with LGPL code. Yeah, Greg corrected me on this already. So we have both FSF folks *and* OpenSSL people being foolish. Sigh. Stephen signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-14 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
On 02/14/2011 02:26 PM, Marko Kreen wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Martin Pittmp...@debian.org wrote: thanks Markus for CC'ing me, I'm not on -hackers@. Markus Wanner [2011-02-14 13:37 +0100]: On 02/10/2011 11:34 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-13 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com writes: What the RPM packaging does is run this (approximately): Well building the debian package also run make check. My question is if that's enough QA here for us? The other side of things if that we will need to provide for a debian repository with support

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-13 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:09, Dimitri Fontaine dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr wrote: Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com writes: What the RPM packaging does is run this (approximately): Well building the debian package also run make check.  My question is if that's enough QA here for us? Don't the RPM

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-13 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net writes: I think i386 and amd64 are enough, really. We could add more later if necessary, but i don't think we need to. Ok. I assume this can be easily virtualized - e.g. having one VM for each version and just boot it up, update all dependencis, build, and

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:56:03PM +0100, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net writes: Yes, since according to a comment somewhere the same issue will bubble into ubuntu soon. At this point, definitely 8.04 and 10.04, and probably 10.10. If things can be easily

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-13 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Michael Banck mba...@debian.org writes: As pbuilder just runs debootstrap on --create and (Debian) debootstrap supports the Ubuntu releases, this is not an issue. Great. It seems that a single amd64 build VM would allow us to build all those binary packages for i386 and amd64, for several

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-12 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us writes: Less narrow-minded interpretation of GPL requirements, perhaps. (And yes, we have real lawyers on staff considering these issues.) If we really believe that the debian interpretation of the licence issue here is moot, surely the easiest action is to offer a

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-12 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 22:46, Dimitri Fontaine dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr wrote: Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us writes: Less narrow-minded interpretation of GPL requirements, perhaps. (And yes, we have real lawyers on staff considering these issues.) If we really believe that the debian

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-12 Thread Charles.McDevitt
charles.mcdev...@emc.com wrote: The GNU people will never be 100% satisfied by anything you do to psql, other than making it GPL. Readline is specifically licensed in a way to try to force this (but many disagree with their ability to force this). The GNU people are perfectly

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-12 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net writes: On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 22:46, Dimitri Fontaine dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr wrote: If we really believe that the debian interpretation of the licence issue here is moot, surely the easiest action is to offer a debian package repository hosted in the

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-12 Thread Greg Smith
Dimitri Fontaine wrote: Now, what I think I would do about the core package is a quite simple backport of them, using Martin's excellent work. Do we want our own QA on them? If yes, I think I would need some help here, maybe with some build farm support for running from our debian packages

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 06:04:46PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Less narrow-minded interpretation of GPL requirements, perhaps. (And yes, we have real lawyers on staff considering these issues.) Is their opinion public/can be made public? This might possibly lead to a re-evaluation of the situation

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-11 Thread Greg Smith
Michael Banck wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 06:04:46PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Less narrow-minded interpretation of GPL requirements, perhaps. (And yes, we have real lawyers on staff considering these issues.) Is their opinion public/can be made public? This might possibly lead to a

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