Kudos guys !!
On 22/02/2013 11:32, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Dear Debian/Ubuntu users,
>
> It is our goal to make things as solid and simple as possible, and
> time has come to address the second part of that goal. We have
> some service announcements concerning the Apt repositories for
> Debian/Ubuntu PostgreSQL packages:
>
> == Changes in the Apt pinning priority on apt.postgresql.org ==
>
> If you add the repository, packages get automatically upgraded to
> the PGDG packages from now on.
>
> In the past, the installation instructions asked you to create an
> apt preferences file ("pinning") to do that, as that's what most
> users want. This is now unnecessary, instead you need to configure
> pinning if you *don't* want to automatically use PGDG packages. See
> [pin] for instructions. If you followed the installation
> instructions and have an /etc/apt/preferences.d/pgdg.pref file,
> nothing will change for you; this file is now redundant and
> harmless.
>
> == pgapt.debian.net is gone ==
>
> Before apt.postgresql.org was set up, we had a repository located
> on pgapt.debian.net. So far, this repository was kept in sync with
> apt.postgresql.org. We will shut down this old repository now.
> Because the packages in the repositories are the same, you do not
> need to install/upgrade anything to switch, except for configuring
> the new archive location.
>
> If you are still using pgapt.debian.net, please follow the normal
> installation instructions at [apt] to switch.
>
> == Ubuntu PPA is being deprecated ==
>
> This Ubuntu private package archive was providing "Newer
> PostgreSQL major versions, backported to supported Ubuntu
> releases"
>
> The functionality of this has been integrated in
> apt.postgresql.org. Martin Pitt, the PostgreSQL debian and ubuntu
> packaging maintainer, has been working on the ubuntu PPA and has
> been part of the apt.postgresql.org team from the first day. The
> new repository has a lot more packages, and also better QA. This
> PPA will still be kept for Ubuntu 10.04's and 11.10's life time,
> but will not receive packages for Ubuntu releases later than 12.04
> LTS.
>
> In about a year (during Ubuntu 12.04 LTS's life time) this PPA is
> going to be shut down. Please consider moving to
> apt.postgresql.org soon; its packages are compatible so switching
> will not be a problem. Please see [apt] for instructions.
>
> [pin]
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt/FAQ#I_want_only_specific_packages_from_this_repository
>
>
[apt] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt
>
