Re: Server error

On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 11:48, Erik Ronström wrote:

> > And which PG version are you running, anyway?
>
> 7.2.1. I've heard it has some bugs, but the guy running the server
> refuses to upgrade to _anything_ that isn't cleared by Debian. 7.3
> should have been cleared some days ago, but it hasn't, don't know why.

It's blocked by perl and python2.2.  The package dependencies are set by
the environment when I build the package and my versions of perl and
python are ahead of those in testing.

His position is a bit irrational, since progression to testing means
only that no release critical bugs have been found within the 10 days
since the package was uploaded.  It is in no sense a guarantee of
perfection; it only means that it will probably not break your system
through an egregious packaging error.

You may tell him that, as Debian maintainer, I consider the current
unstable package to be better than the one in testing!  If he wants to
keep the rest of his system pure he could download the source package
and build from that.

If in fact you mean that he is running stable, there is a woody build of
7.3.2  in an aptable repository at
http://people.debian.org/~elphick/debian

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