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Re: Updating IPC::Run in CI?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Date: 2025-09-22T20:24:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> To more explicitly defend my position here: I can request updates from
> package maintainers for <insert OS here>, but if the end result is
> that our LTS distributions will still be lagging, there's not much
> point. I'd rather bake the latest IPC::Run into our CI, and I'm happy
> to contribute code and cycles towards that.

+1.  Maybe we can stop doing this at some future time when all those
OSes have absorbed an up-to-date IPC::Run, but for the near term we're
merely exposing ourselves to known failures.

			regards, tom lane