Bug#336245: libpgjava: use upstream package name

Wolfgang Baer WBaer at gmx.de
Fri Oct 28 21:54:24 UTC 2005


Hi Peter,

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Package: libpgjava
> Version: 8.0-312-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> As long as you are randomly renaming the package, shouldn't you use the
> upstream package name?  

I would not call it randomly - it was a change to comply with java policy !

> That would be "postgresql-jdbc" so the package
> should be called libpostgresql-jdbc-java.  That would also have the nice
> side effect that people looking for "postgresql" or "jdbc" actually find
> something rather than having to guess at Debian's arbitrary abbreviation scheme.

Well, I am open to suggestions and you are right that using upstreams name
would be better from our users pov. So what are you proposing ?

Currently the following programs rdepend on libpgjava:
rhdb-explain - you are the maintainer
libpostgis-java - RC buggy needs new upload anyway
And openoffice.org-base depends on libpg-java.

libpgjava is part of sarge and therefore a transitional package
as now exists needs to be kept. We can just rename libpg-java into
libpostgresql-jdbc-java.

Comments ?

Wolfgang







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