Package: postgresql-common Version: 90 Severity: normal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
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. - -- debconf information excluded -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBSMbLJ8zS7ZTSFznpAQLjEw/+IFloEaDwSV6bhV4ZKegP0fUi2+Uqr0Ew Fiqjt3ULzNTvyqrcStjb+9hAs32mel44uViD4SXORqw/RXEFlfHHm0F7gKWz6Qk0 7IHV/g7MchPPnYKDtfiQoDRhhMaL3rhieUOE4eZ2KPn/l+VC48M5Mn9++K4ghhRj 0CNeI93kgyzZn171zz4JKFZ7fVUPVY7OlBMNMHRKuxJNwacg5n/5cPRmASZ1VFAb s91cSNrRMWFi9mS4jcT4xulsrGw4X5TgFp923CvBBS/t7y3DGF0ku2mCvuwBqPfW /J0qCdPAVQf9kTW9D/tOxeqhQ36dvdvhLZVXhCD4MG9A//3zS+a9fULecdzFiY3m PKJgu377farXDsWRvag0eo8k5eEoVhggL/C6Y7ytWvmJWk3eVKuEWmMqoC55W2H7 k/wfGrnt56VRquIkav9t8zcTn/W93XoW7MHEoJkbQ6SQGd5fIiR+5rXd26+vEKzG WNv0HnEFCa02C75WsNggqn4TOOR2NDjNviX6RmpNKdeYMiS3QX+dmONjmjRZE7J3 iIteoDiUaAB2cM4rhCVt1cj/skZ67mO8qm1Krbw9SQFwdIdfbtK+S8DrwBmMg1S1 gdF3kpUkFQpZtc7hOFrgHmDpyGRsDSsNPwkcFsNT6d8FZXW5lIUeefBJ9sitLZd9 PtAYIuFOuCg= =/ztO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]