On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 04:30:18AM +0000, Jake Barnes wrote:
On Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 23:03, notify@aur.archlinux.org <notify@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.