Bug#1053458: openstreetmap-carto-common: Configure step failed with FATAL: role "root" does not exist

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 6/4/26 6:05 PM, Manfred Stock wrote:
> I'd also vote for removing the postinst script from
> openstreetmap-carto-common. Not just because it currently doesn't work
> out-of-the-box, but also because it might not actually be that useful
> anymore. The way I understand it, the get-external-data.py script (or
> its predecessor) originally downloaded (shape-) files with e.g.
> coastlines, extracted them and stored them in a 'data' directory where
> they were referenced from the style. So it made sense to run it after
> the installation in order to have this data, which is required for
> rendering, already downloaded and ready.
> 
> However, for a couple versions of the style now, it doesn't store the
> files anymore, it imports them into a running PostgreSQL/PostGIS
> database where the corresponding tables are then used by the style (in
> order to be able to actually render anything, an OSM extract or planet
> must be imported into the same database, too). So I guess that this
> change in behavior is what actually somewhat broke the postinst script -
> originally, no database access was required, but now it is.

Since you actually use the package, I suggest you get more involved in its maintenance, I'm just keeping it on life support and have already had it removed from the archive once before because no one was willing and able to fix node-carto until josch needed to scratch that itch.

I was waiting for him to chime in on this issue, but he hasn't touched this package since 2022.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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