On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 09:52:47PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 07:54:00PM -0400, Joe Conway wrote: > > Virtually every RPM source, including ours, contains out of tree patches > > that get applied on top of the release tarball. At least for the PGDG > > packages, it would be nice to integrate them into our git repo as build > > options or whatever so that the packages could be built without any patches > > applied to it. Add a tarball that is signed and traceable back to the git > > tag, and we would be in a much better place than we are now. > > How would someone access the out-of-tree patches? I think Debian > includes the patches in its source tarball.
If you ask where they are maintained, the answer is here: https://salsa.debian.org/postgresql/postgresql/-/tree/17/debian/patches?ref_type=heads the other major versions have their own branch. Michael
