Re: what's going on with lapwing?

On 2025-03-06 Th 10:45 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> wrote:
>> FWIW I installed the client version 19.1 this morning and forced a run on HEAD
>> and lapwing is back to green.
> Thanks, appreciate it.
>
> By the way, is there a particular reason why we're keeping Debian 7
> coverage in the buildfarm? I don't want to be in a huge rush to kill
> platforms people still care about, but it was pointed out to me
> off-list that this is quite an old release -- it seems Debian 7 was
> first released in 2013, last released in 2016, EOL in 2018. I assume
> that not too many people are going to install a PostgreSQL release
> that comes out in 2025 on an OS that's been EOL for 7 years (or 12
> years if the BF page is correct that this is actually Debian 7.0).
> Somewhat oddly, I see that we have coverage for Debian 9, 11, 12, and
> 13, but not 8 or 10. Is there a theory behind all of this or is the
> current situation somewhat accidental?
>


Fairly accidental, I think.

We do have a project at EDB at fill in certain gaps in buildfarm 
coverage, so maybe we can reduce the incidence of such accidents.


cheers


andrew

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Andrew Dunstan
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