Re: amcheck packages

From: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, pgsql-pkg-debian(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: amcheck packages
Date: 2017-10-05 16:35:25
Message-ID: 20171005163525.7exvb5gx6c7d3nbd@msg.df7cb.de
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Re: To Peter Geoghegan 2017-10-03 <20171003072437(dot)zdptcl23kewltivh(at)msg(dot)df7cb(dot)de>
> > Without this, the control file of the external version simply
> > overwrites the contrib version as part of "make install". That's
> > clearly not okay.
>
> On the dpkg side, the package would be uninstallable because the file
> lists conflict.
>
> The .so file would also need renaming, btw...

Fwiw, on the dpkg side, another way out of the situation would be to
dpkg-divert the files away. Given that both packages provide the same
functionality, just different versions, that might be a nice way to
handle the problem.

Just renaming everything might be easier to handle, though.

Anyway, waiting for your ideas :)

Christoph

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