[Pkg-postgresql-public] GiST rebuild

[Martin Pitt]

Markus Wanner [2008-11-12 19:38 +0100]:
> 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.

It did lots of debconf-ish things in sarge. Most of it was to handle
major version upgrades, which failed spectacularly in many times,
which is why I dumped it and replaced it with a post-dist-upgrade
method (pg_upgradecluster and being able to install several major
versions in parallel). The other bits were about choosing cluster
encoding/locale, but that's pretty nonsensical, too, because there are
good and sane defaults.

postgresql-common still depends on debconf and uses it to explain the
upgrade steps. The actual postgresql-8.3 package doesn't, it more or
less just ships the bits, but almost no packaging logic.

Martin

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