Re: Collation version tracking for macOS - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Munro
Subject Re: Collation version tracking for macOS
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Msg-id CA+hUKGLxWZNpvPVuRkiXT9TwDLgHK-hinpZ856o88vVZM7kHzA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Collation version tracking for macOS  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 11:33 PM Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> What I'm wondering is where those ICU installations are going to come
> from.  In order for this project to be viable, we would need to convince
> some combination of ICU maintainers, OS packagers, and PGDG packagers to
> provide and maintain five year's worth of ICU packages (yearly releases
> AFAICT).  Is that something we are willing to get into?

I hacked on this on a Debian machine that has a couple of these
installed and they work fine, but now I realise that might have to do
with the major upgrade history of the machine.  So yeah... probably.
:-/  Not being involved in packaging I have no idea how plausible such
a backports (erm, forwardports?) repo would be, and I have even less
idea for other distros.



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