[Pkg-postgresql-private] Re: s/postgresql/pgsql/g for Postgresql.

[Martin Pitt]

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Hi Eric, hi PostgreSQL maintainers,

I'm currently walking through postgresql's bug list to clean up a bit.

Does anyone want to keep this wishlist bug (see below) open? In this
case I would tag it as "wontfix".

Otherwise I would like to close this item.

Thanks and have a nice day!

Martin

On 2000-07-13  0:42 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> Package: postgresql
> Version: 7.0.2.2=20
> Severity: wishlist
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> I know you've been packaging postgresql to be put in /usr/lib/postgresql
> and /usr/include/postgresql for a while. However, it has come up from
> time to time (for me at least) that third party software, not packaged
> for Debian, but looking for postgresql, will only look for headers, etc.
> under /usr/local/pgsql/* or /usr/include/pgsql and /usr/lib/pgsql.  It
> seems, the default upstream postgresql installation would put it into
> /usr/local/pgsql.  I don't know what the upstream people recommend, but
> it would simplify life for software developers if they didn't have to
> look for postgresql includes under multiple directory names. While I
> like "postgresql" because it's more informative, it seems more people
> are used to  the "pgsql" convention.  Perhaps this requires resolution
> from the upstream maintainers?  It really should be standardised.
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> Thanks for listening.
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>     The emu is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace.
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On 2000-07-13 21:03 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> "Eric G . Miller" wrote:
>   >Package: postgresql
>   >Version: 7.0.2.2
>   >Severity: wishlist
>   >
>   >I know you've been packaging postgresql to be put in /usr/lib/postgres=
ql
>   >and /usr/include/postgresql for a while. However, it has come up from
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> I think it is around 3 years now.
>=20
>   >time to time (for me at least) that third party software, not packaged
>   >for Debian, but looking for postgresql, will only look for headers, et=
c.
>   >under /usr/local/pgsql/* or /usr/include/pgsql and /usr/lib/pgsql.  It
>   >seems, the default upstream postgresql installation would put it into
>   >/usr/local/pgsql.  I don't know what the upstream people recommend, but
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> postgresql-dev does document what -I option to use with gcc.  As things a=
re
> now, postgresql is the name of the package, so to my mind it is more
> confusing to change away from that.
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>   >it would simplify life for software developers if they didn't have to
>   >look for postgresql includes under multiple directory names. While I
>   >like "postgresql" because it's more informative, it seems more people
>   >are used to  the "pgsql" convention.  Perhaps this requires resolution
>   >from the upstream maintainers?  It really should be standardised.
>=20
> The upstream is written on the basis that it is likely to be installed by
> someone without sysadmin privilege, and installs in /usr/local, which
> a Debian package must not do.  So there is already a gulf between
> upstream assumptions and the reality of packaging for a distribution.  I
> think that if anyone has problems with where I put things in Debian, he
> can make a symbolic link to make things the way he likes.  My judgment is
> that after 3 years of doing it one way, I would be wrong to change it
> to cope with non-Debianised software.  After all, the various packages
> that interface with PostgreSQL would all have to change too, because
> this change would gratuitously break them.
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> Oliver Elphick                                Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
> Isle of Wight                              http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
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Martin Pitt                 Debian GNU/Linux Developer
martin@piware.de                      mpitt@debian.org
http://www.piware.de             http://www.debian.org

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