[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#741803: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Bug#314427: hsql-postgresql imports

Martin Pitt mpitt at debian.org
Mon Mar 17 07:32:16 UTC 2014


Joachim Breitner [2014-03-16 15:03 +0100]:
> hsql-postgresql started to fail to build on Debian because the header
> file postgres.h was removed from libpq-dev. According to
> https://bugs.debian.org/314427, this is a file that should only be used
> for server-side programming and hence was removed from libpq-dev;
> clients should only use these header files, it seems:

That's correct.

If there are legitimate reason why this client-side application needs
a server-side header, the package could grow a build dependency on
postgresql-server-dev-9.3 to at least make this fact explicit and fix
the FTBFS in the short term.

Martin

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