Promoting postgresql-contrib to supported

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Mon Nov 29 16:38:11 CST 2004


On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:24:29AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:

> Recently I was asked by Stuart about the state of postgresql-contrib.
> It is currently in universe, but the launchpad folks seem to need
> some functionality of it.
> 
> As Debian PostgreSQL maintainer I of course also care for
> postgresql-contrib, and can provide particular Ubuntu support for this
> package as well.
> 
> Is there any objection to add it to the "Supported" seed?

My understanding is that this package contains a collection of
small user-contributed extensions, which are not supported by the upstream
PostgreSQL maintainers.  Is that accurate?

Which bit of functionality does launchpad use?  Is there any plan for
integrating it into PostgreSQL proper?

-- 
 - mdz



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