| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, 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: | 2015-06-28 02:14:56 |
| Message-ID: | 558F58A0.1040809@commandprompt.com |
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On 06/27/2015 04:15 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> 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?
psycopg2
php-pg (or whatever it is called)
etc...
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