Package: postgresql-common
Version: 90
Severity: normal
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Currently, you cannot install the postgresql server without installing
postgresql-common. and postgresql-common depends on ssl-cert, which
brings in its own dependencies. There are reasonable (if unusual)
systems where installing the ssl-cert package is excessive and
unwanted for a postgresql server, including:
* systems that do not provide TCP/IP connections to the database
server at all
* systems that have a site-specific policy related to how their TLS
certifications should be created and used which are not in line
with the snakeoil certificate created by ssl-cert
Having ssl-cert set as a hard Depends: forces unnecessary packages to
be installed on these reasonable systems that would otherwise be
perfectly functional.
Debian policy [0] says:
The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is
required for the depending package to provide a significant amount
of functionality.
and:
The Recommends field should list packages that would be found
together with this one in all but unusual installations.
ssl-cert falls into the Recommends category more than the Depends
category with respect to postgresql-common.
Thanks for packaging PostgreSQL for debian!
Regards,
--dkg
[0] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages postgresql-common depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy
ii lsb-base 3.2-19 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii postgresql-client-common 90 manager for multiple PostgreSQL cl
ii procps 1:3.2.7-8 /proc file system utilities
ii ssl-cert 1.0.22 simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
postgresql-common recommends no packages.
postgresql-common suggests no packages.
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