[Ccing the packagers list] Re: Kristian Larsson 2013-05-19 <[email protected]> > Dear Christoph, > > I was in contact with Robert Edmonds on getting ip4r2.0 in debian which > seemed to have happenednowand given that he is no longer listed as > maintainer, I suppose you have taken over ownership of the ip4r package!?:)
Hi Kristian, yes, Robert was so kind to allow me to take over. > Anyway, I have a debian package that depends on having ip4r installed. > At installation time, it collects some information from the user and > helps to automatically setup the database environment, which includes > installing ip4r, which is done by 'CREATE EXTENSION ip4r'. The package > depends on postgresql but does not at this time depend on ip4r so the > user will need to make sure that is installed before even trying to > install my package. The current name of the ip4r package is > postgresql-9.1-ip4r and I would like to avoid depending on this package > as things would break with the release of postgresql-9.2. Doyou think it > would be possible to also add a meta-package called postgresql-ip4r that > in turn depends on postgresql-X-ip4r? The problem with that is that it doesn't really solve the problem. If we just add a "Provides: postgresql-ip4r", on the next postgresql-x.y upgrade, the Provides will still be satisfy by the old package being installed, so that doesn't automatically upgrade also ip4r. If we provide a real meta-package, things get a bit better, but last time we discussed this there were still issues (that I forgot). Before I add a meta-package to ip4r, we should come up with a policy of how to do this for all the modules packages we have. Pro: * Would probably fix the "extension upgrade" problem * Might be easier for users to use Con: * It adds a binary meta package to all modules packages that otherwise would only (usually) build a single, very small package * Needs to be kept updated (pg_buildext could automate it) Does anyone on the list have an opinion about this? Christoph -- [email protected] | http://www.df7cb.de/
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