On 7/2/13 4:26 AM, Christoph Berg wrote: > The question now is which package(s) should be marked as > NeverAutoRemove. > > 1) The postgresql-x.y package of the (old)stable release 2) > ^postgresql-[0-9]+-[0-9]$ 3) ^postgresql-.* > > 2) is probably equivalent to 1), as there's only one version in > stable, and also easier to maintain, because we don't need to deal > with changing the file, and partial upgrades. > > 3) would be needed if we decide that we also need to care about > extension modules that should not be removed on dist-upgrade. > (Though I tend to think these would usually be manually installed. > But we might have the same metapackage-with-changing-dependency > problem there as well.)
It should be 3), because otherwise the postgresql-contrib-x.y package will be removed and you won't be able to dump your database if it uses any data type provided in a contrib module. The same goes for things like postgresql-x.y-ip4r. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
