Re: Unresolved dependency on init-system-helpers from postgresql-common

Hello Christoph,

Thanks for the quick response and action. I can confirm that upgrade of
postgresql-common now succeeds.

Regards,

Justin

On 18-12-14 17:54, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: To Justin Ossevoort 2014-12-18 <20141218111949(dot)GA24581(at)msg(dot)df7cb(dot)de>
>> Re: Justin Ossevoort 2014-12-18 <5492AEDA(dot)2070409(at)internetionals(dot)nl>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The postgresql-common package has been updated and received an additional
>>> dependency on the 'init-system-helpers' package. This package is not
>>> available under Debian Wheezy.
>>>
>>> We're using the postgresql packages from:
>>>
>>> deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ wheezy-pgdg main
>>
>> Hi Justin,
>>
>> thanks for the report.
>>
>> init-system-helpers is available in wheezy-backports.
>>
>> That said, it wasn't really intended to make backports a dependency,
>> I'll investigate if/how we can resolve that and follow up here,
>> probably this evening.
>
> Hi again,
>
> the problem is now [*] fixed. The problem was that the pbuilder
> dependency resolver thought that it would be a good idea to install
> dh-systemd 1.18 from wheezy-backports while the package clearly said
> it wanted dh-systemd >= 1.19. I've now ripped out that dependency from
> the wheezy package (like we already do on the older Ubuntu
> distributions), so there's now nothing left to be confused about.
>
> Thanks again for the report,
> Christoph
>
> [*] well it's fixed now, but the updated packages will take about half
> an hour to become visible on apt.pg.o
>