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

From James Laska
Subject Missing virtual provides on postgresql-9.4 deb
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Msg-id CAFyeYZ4xvd4O8JrOx=uydMSoQMW5XtHS_t5eWBxYboCwo0NdyQ@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: Missing virtual provides on postgresql-9.4 deb  (Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de>)
Re: Missing virtual provides on postgresql-9.4 deb  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Greetings,

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.

It seems this convention was followed for the postgresql-client-9.4 as it offers the following virtual Provides:

Provides: postgresql-client

Any reason not to add the following virtual provides to the `control` file for the postgresql-9.4 deb package?

Provides: postgresql

Thanks,
James

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