Re: Missing virtual provides on postgresql-9.4 deb - Mailing list pgsql-pkg-debian

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Missing virtual provides on postgresql-9.4 deb
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Msg-id 558F2E7C.6090304@gmx.net
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In response to Missing virtual provides on postgresql-9.4 deb  (James Laska <jal233@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Missing virtual provides on postgresql-9.4 deb  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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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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