"David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com> writes:
> On Oct 29, 2025, at 17:37, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> ... I still do not like having any
>> policy decisions about which branches to check hard-wired into the
>> buildfarm client.
> Well that’s pretty easily addressed by adding a configuration for it. Maybe a regex to match branches, defaulting to
itscurrent value[0], `/_STABLE$/`. 
I'm asking to remove complexity, not add more.  The buildfarm client
should not be checking either branch names or git tags to control
this, when we have a perfectly good convention about the existence
of .abi-compliance-history to control it.
            regards, tom lane