Re: Buildfarm member Narwhal: Python 2.5/8.1

Dave Page wrote:
> New buildfarm member Narwhal is failing the PL regression tests for 
> Python on REL8_1_STABLE. This appears to be because it's running 
> Python 2.5 (the causes being a deprecated module - whrandom - and some 
> changed messages).
>
> The former problem was fixed by Peter, and the latter by Tom but both 
> only for 8.2+`- any reason this wasn't backported to 8.1? I couldn't 
> find anything in the archives.
>
> http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_stage_log.pl?nm=narwhal&dt=2007-04-17%20085153&stg=pl-install-check

The question in my mind is this: how much do we back-patch to cover new 
and incompatible releases of software we depend on? Python 2.5 was 
released on 19 Sept 2006, long after Postgres 8.1. I guess you could 
make a case to say that we should back-patch to the release immediately 
before the library change.

(BTW, it is possible to include python only in certain branches in your 
buildfarm client - examples are in the config file).

cheers

andrew