On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 04:30:18AM +0000, Jake Barnes wrote: > On Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 23:03, not...@aur.archlinux.org > <not...@aur.archlinux.org> wrote: >> MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for postgresql-12 [2]: > >> This legacy PostgreSQL v12 (first released in 2019) fails to build on >> current Arch Linux. > > As mentioned in the comments, this package indeed does not build > recently due to a breaking change in libxml2, but could probably be > easily fixed with a patch if any users are interested in submitting > one (I don't actually personally use this package any more). I am not > sure if this situation warrants a deletion or not tbh. I did actually submit a patch which seems to fix the issue, though a bit more of work is required (see my comment in the package's page).
>> Users should upgrade their databases for a newer PostgreSQL major >> version. > > Upstream support ends this coming November which would be the deadline > for users still on 12, until then it may still be useful to people, > since people still complain when it doesn't build. Also, given that there's a long queue of pending requests, IMHO this request can wait till November, no need to rush. And the maintainer seems active, so it's fair to give them a chance to fix it.
