Package: psycopg
Version: 1.1.18-1
Severity: important

Hi!

psycopg currently build-depends on postgresql-server-dev-8.0, which is
problematic on two different ways:

 * The 8.0 packages will disappear soon since they are obsoleted by
   version 8.1.

 * psycopg is a client-side database library. It is just
   plain wrong to depend on server-side bits since that makes the
   library dependant on a particular postgresql version.  Client-side
   packages should only use libpq-dev, which provides the interface
   designed for clients (and even some server-side include files which
   some packages just cannot resist to use).

Please remove the build dependency soon, so that 8.0 can be removed
from the archive.

Thanks!

Martin
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