Comment 8 for bug 899794

I did find the package python-psycopg2-2.4.2-1 only for Ubuntu 11.10 which have only slightly more than one year of support left. I cannot find any option for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and 12.04 LTS wont be released until April. Redhat 6 does not have the package neither, only Fedora, but that's again not for servers. Redhat 7 will likely not be released until at least 2013. Redhat ES 6 - 6.2 uses python-psycopg2-2.0.13 just like Ubuntu 10.04 LTS!

For development machines and so on there is no problem using unofficial packages and so on, but I believe we are intending to sell OpenERP to enterprise. I have had a support contract with Redhat before, and I do know that if you rebuild for example php you also loose official support for Apache - you are on your own! That is typically unacceptable options unless you are doing your own in-house support - where you typically have system administrators, not developers - and even then most system administrators prefer having someone to call when things happen!

I am not saying you cannot run any unofficial packages what so ever neither, but requiring rebuild of packages such as PHP or Python, or installation of GCC are usually off limits.

In other words - we are pulling OpenERP further away from the groups we are trying to approach.

I did try to install the python-psycopg-2.4.2-1 package just in case but that package requires python-2.7.1, and likely a slew of other updates, and I believe that to resolve that would mean to go thorough dependency hell.