On 02/18/2013 09:14 PM, Brendan Jurd wrote:
> If the concern is to have Debian/Ubuntu packaging that has an
> "official" project flavour, as opposed to Martin's "personal" package
> archive, why don't we just set up a "postgres" PPA or similar?
Well, a PPA - by its very definition - is a personal package archive.
It's an Ubuntu/Launchpad thing. Not something a Debian user wants to use.
> If it's important to have apt.postgresql.org for other reasons, then
> maybe the "postgres" PPA could be built from apt.p.o?
You need to upload sources to build a PPA. Launchpad builds the binaries
(for x86 and amd64 exclusively, IIRC).
Thus, a self-hosted apt.postgresql.org clearly can serve more use cases
than a PPA does. And being closer to the Debian way of doing it
certainly doesn't hurt upstream acceptance (or that of other Debian
based distributions).
That being said, I'm all for simplifying the installation. Upthread,
Christoph and Martin already discussed viable approaches.
Regards
Markus Wanner