On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:52 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I think it's Debian's problem, not ours, if that doesn't work.  It is
> not unreasonable for a package to probe existence of a library function
> at configure time.  It's up to them to make sure that the headers match
> the actual library.

That seems like an unhelpful attitude. Debian is a mainstream
platform, and no doubt feels that they have important reasons for what
they are doing.

That's not to say that I'm against the patch, but I don't believe it's
right to treat the concerns of mainstream Linux distributions in
anything less than a serious manner.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


Reply via email to