Thread: empty pg 12 packages for bionic

Hello pgdg,

It seems that currently pg 12 package list for bionic testing is empty, 
resulting in a impossibility to get the 12devel version on my laptop.

https://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/dists/bionic-pgdg-testing/12/binary-amd64/Packages

However it seems to be ok for xenial and trusty. Is there a policy not to 
support pgdg testing on the latest ubuntu LTS?

I wonder whether a version could be simply named "devel" or "dev" or 
"master" which would be the latest version from sources, whatever it is.

-- 
Fabien.

Re: Fabien COELHO 2018-08-07 <alpine.DEB.2.21.1808071634120.25069@lancre>
> 
> Hello pgdg,
> 
> It seems that currently pg 12 package list for bionic testing is empty,
> resulting in a impossibility to get the 12devel version on my laptop.
> 
> https://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/dists/bionic-pgdg-testing/12/binary-amd64/Packages
> 
> However it seems to be ok for xenial and trusty. Is there a policy not to
> support pgdg testing on the latest ubuntu LTS?

Hi,

the list of supported Ubuntu releases for postgresql-12 (or devel in
general) is mostly influenced by what travis-ci supports, so there was
no urge for me to add bionic, but it does indeed make sense to add it.

Done now, will be part of the next regular build. (Every 6 hours
depending on if there was a change in git. That's why it isn't
targeting all distribution/architecture combinations, which would be a
lot of resources and build time.)

Thanks for the suggestion!

> I wonder whether a version could be simply named "devel" or "dev" or
> "master" which would be the latest version from sources, whatever it is.

No, it needs to be called postgresql-12 or else things will get very
complicated. (For upgrades, and postgresql-common operation in
general.)

Christoph

Hello Christoph,

> the list of supported Ubuntu releases for postgresql-12 (or devel in
> general) is mostly influenced by what travis-ci supports, so there was
> no urge for me to add bionic, but it does indeed make sense to add it.
>
> Done now,

Thanks a lot!

>> I wonder whether a version could be simply named "devel" or "dev" or
>> "master" which would be the latest version from sources, whatever it is.
>
> No, it needs to be called postgresql-12 or else things will get very
> complicated. (For upgrades, and postgresql-common operation in
> general.)

Too bad it cannot be done simply.

-- 
Fabien Coelho - CRI, MINES ParisTech