Package: postgresql-pgsphere Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
Postgres extensions have a hard dependency on the version of postgres itself. On the other hand, Debian lets people install multiple postgres versions in parallel. Therefore, the package name needs to contain the postgres version the extension is complied again (e.g., postgres-11-pgsphere). I'd say postgres-pgsphere should (roughly) copy what postgis does. There, postgres-postgis is a virtual package, with packages like postgres-11-postgis providing it. Postgis takes another step in allowing multiple versions of postgis itself being installable for a single postgres version. I don't think there's a credible use case for that in pgsphere. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.4.7 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages postgresql-pgsphere depends on: ii libc6 2.28-10 ii postgresql-11 11.7-0+deb10u1 postgresql-pgsphere recommends no packages. postgresql-pgsphere suggests no packages.
