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by systemvoltage 1348 days ago
Just some feedback for releases of any software: I think apt sources and repositories should be ready to go on launch and PR-release so people can immediately use the new version. Looks like that's going to take 2-3 days. Sources are available but that's not something most people want to delve in with make files and dependencies. Something like postgres is huge. Right now, if you go to downloads and expect postgresql-15 available, it is not; lot of people on IRC and elsewhere on Twitter are confused where to download postgresql-15. I know that takes time, so the PR release should just be delayed until apt sources are ready. May be also docker repositories.
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> Just some feedback for releases of any software: I think apt sources and repositories should be ready to go on launch and PR-release so people can immediately use the new version.

Normally that's the case - we "wrap" the release on Monday so that packagers have time till Thursday to get packages ready. Looks like something didn't quite work out this time. Looking into what went wrong.

Part of it is that a list of supported versions on the windows, macos download pages weren't updated, despite the 15 being available. But unfortunately the Debian / Ubuntu packages are indeed not yet ready.

> May be also docker repositories

postgresql.org doesn't currently provide docker containers to my knowledge.

No worries, thanks for looking into it.