Re: Removing postgresql83

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 11:58:00PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> David Holland <dholland-pkgusers%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 06:09:57PM +0200, Adam Ciarci?ski wrote:
> 
> >  > > Actually, I'd prefer if we drop 8.4 as well, given that we have 9.0 
> > till
> >  > > 9.2 in the system. Updating to 8.4 is as much work as updating to 9.x,
> >  > > since it is before pg_update can be deployed.
> >  > 
> >  > Seconded.
> >  > I can kill both 8.3 and 8.4 later today, and update the rest.
> >
> > Please keep 8.4 for at least a couple more weeks, so people can apply
> > the security fix and then plan migration!
> 
> If 8.4 is not EOL upstream, I don't think it should be removed yet.
> Just because a pkgsrc developer thinks something is crufty is not enough
> reason to remove it.  It needs to be in the "no one in their right mind
> is still using it, or it is actively difficult to maintain".

We had this discussion more than once before. Please check the archive.

Joerg