[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#996897: Should not suggest postgresql-12-plr

Christoph Berg myon at debian.org
Fri Oct 22 19:09:58 BST 2021


Re: Andreas Tille
> > please don't reference specific PostgreSQL versions in your
> > dependencies as the number changes each year, and it is already wrong
> > as 13 is current, and we are moving to 14:
> 
> I understand the issue but postgresql-plr is only a virtual package
> and I need to specify a real package as first alternative.  Do you
> see any chance to have a real postgresql-plr package depending from
> the versioned one?

I don't think you need the real package there - postgresql-12-plr has
been removed a year ago, and the dependency is even wrong in the
released bullseye package. I'd just drop it and go with
postgresql-plr.

Afaict the "real package first" requirement is only there for
build-dependencies.

So far we have refrained from adding empty dependency packages to each
of the PG extension packages because there's already enough
micro-packages, and these extra packages don't even solve the problem
completely.

Christoph



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