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

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Missing virtual provides on postgresql-9.4 deb
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Msg-id 558F58A0.1040809@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: Missing virtual provides on postgresql-9.4 deb  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Missing virtual provides on postgresql-9.4 deb  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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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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