[Pkg-postgresql-public] GiST rebuild

[Markus Wanner]

Hi,

I've just been reading about debconf and how to interact with the user
through it. I've been surprised to note that the Postgres package
currently doesn't even have a dependency on debconf.

Martin Pitt wrote:
> Argh, maybe not. My initial thinking was that debconf-ish stuff is
> either run at the start of the postinst, or the .config is called by
> apt right before the unpacking starts, isn't it?

According to 'man debconf-devel', it's run twice, one before unpacking
and once from postinst.

> Anyway, the broken index can be safely detected at any time, with any
> version, so merely pointing out the fix-it script is safer IMHO.

Agreed. I didn't think fiddling with debconf was *that* hard :-(

So, we just show a dialog with a hint text and a pointer to that helper
script, right?

Regards

Markus Wanner