[Pkg-postgresql-public] Getting postgresql-8.4 8.4.12-2 into wheezy

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Thu Jul 19 17:20:46 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 15:55:04 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:

> There's one more issue with that package, it "depends: postgresql-8.4"
> which makes it uninstallable in wheezy, but will work on systems
> upgraded from squeeze. The dependency is technically correct, as it
> enforces that it doesn't get installed where it is otherwise useless,
> but it might be preferable to just drop that dependency so that
> doesn't trigger QA scripts checking wheezy. I'm not sure which way is
> better - both might be worth a note in the wheezy release notes about
> upgrading PostgreSQL databases using PL/Perl.
> 
It won't just trigger QA scripts, it will make britney refuse to let the
new postgresql-8.4 source package into wheezy.

Cheers,
Julien
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