<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Counterexample: <a href="https://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/dists/xenial-pgdg/main/binary-amd64/">https://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/dists/xenial-pgdg/main/binary-amd64/</a> ships PostGIS 2.5.1 (which is latest released) and does not ship any GEOS, relying on xenial-provided GEOS 3.5.0, released back in 2015. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 10:02 PM Paul Ramsey <<a href="mailto:pramsey@cleverelephant.ca">pramsey@cleverelephant.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The PGDG packagers are pretty good now about pushing forward to more recent GEOS. I’m not sure who would package a super-fresh PostGIS for LTS and then not bother to package an equivalent GEOS… ?<br>
Might be trying to fix a condition that rarely occurs.<br>
P.<br>
<br>
> On Jan 23, 2019, at 6:35 AM, Raúl Marín Rodríguez <<a href="mailto:rmrodriguez@carto.com" target="_blank">rmrodriguez@carto.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Hi,<br>
> <br>
>> I had taken it out with the<br>
>> assumption we'd skip PostgreSQL 12 cycle and do a 2 year run.<br>
> <br>
> I've always thought that plan was to match 3.0 with 12, if possible.<br>
> <br>
> I have mixed feelings about this. GEOS 3.5 is still receiving commits (last<br>
> one in Oct 20, 2018) but, on the other hand, its last release (3.5.1) was in<br>
> Oct 2016 which will be 3 years old by the time we plan to release 3.0.<br>
> Considering that I expect Postgis 3.0 to be supported for at least ~4 years,<br>
> that will mean that we'll need to support an 8 year-old GEOS with its bugs<br>
> and differences from 3.7.<br>
> <br>
> I'm personally happy to kill GEOS 3.5 support but I can accept that it will be<br>
> a pain in the ass for anyone using a LTS distribution. Nevertheless, those<br>
> distributions are already stuck with old GEOS and Postgis. For example Xenial<br>
> (Ubuntu 16.04) has GEOS 3.5 and Postgis 2.2, and Bionic (18.04) has GEOS 3.6<br>
> and Postgis 2.4.<br>
> This means that if you want Postgis 3 and you are using a LTS distro, you<br>
> already need to either use some unofficial repo or package postgis yourself.<br>
> I don't think that asking to also package a newer GEOS is too much to ask.<br>
> <br>
> I share with Komяpa the feeling that we should push people to also update GEOS<br>
> as part of their Postgis update, but personally I might more comfortable telling<br>
> people that I'm not going to workaround a bug that isn't present in newer<br>
> (major) release, alas that isn't trully supporting 3.5.<br>
> <br>
> So basically I don't have a strong opinion either way, but I'm more inclined<br>
> towards dropping it.<br>
> <br>
> -- <br>
> Raúl Marín Rodríguez<br>
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