Splitting off ancillary packages [was: Re: [Pkg-postgresql-private] New packaging system - ancillary packages]]

[Oliver Elphick]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 12:56, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On 2004-01-05 21:40 +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > I wonder though which ancillary packages you think should be
> > duplicated?  The minimum is: postgresql, postgresql-client,
> > postgresql-contrib, libpq3 where it differs substantially and
> > postgresql-doc.  What others do you want to see?
> 
> Related to this issue and also to #206761 is the following:
> 
> What do you think about splitting off all ancillary packages (pgeasy,
> pgperl, plr and psqlodbc) to separate source packages? They could get
> their own maintainer, wouldn't clutter up the main postgresql
> package and separating the dbs patches would clean up a little bit.
> This would also solve #206761.

Do you want to look and see if it can be done?  ODBC can be built
separately, but the others may need fairly extensive tweaks since they
are (were) designed to be built in the PostgreSDQL source tree.

> I would put them as separate module in the postgresql archive instead.
> I could help with pgperl and pgeasy (I can be the maintainer for my
> sake), but I don't know anything about psqlodbc and plr.  Michael,
> Andreas, Oliver, would you like to keep the latter packages? Otherwise
> we could RFA them, maybe there is some DD who regularly uses ODBC
> and/or R.

I would be happy to split them off to someone else, if it can be done.

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