Re: Missing virtual provides on postgresql-9.4 deb

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: James Laska <jal233(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-pkg-debian(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Missing virtual provides on postgresql-9.4 deb
Date: 2015-06-27 23:15:08
Message-ID: 558F2E7C.6090304@gmx.net
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On 6/23/15 9:06 PM, James Laska wrote:
> While installing postgresql-9.4, I noticed that the deb does not offer a
> `Provides: postgresql`. I believe the convention for the comparable rpm
> builds is to offer a virtual provides so that any packages requiring the
> `postgresql` server capability continue to function after installing
> postgresql-9.4, but removing the Ubuntu-packaged `postgresql` package.

What package would want a dependency on a locally installed server but
does not care about the major version of the server package?

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