Missing userland binaries for PostGIS 2.1 - Mailing list pgsql-pkg-debian

From Mike Dillon
Subject Missing userland binaries for PostGIS 2.1
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Msg-id CAG077fAyaOdrpqg46ah_8N6MhUR-pLP3b85aePgKwbO70FKuRw@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: Missing userland binaries for PostGIS 2.1  (Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>)
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Hi all-

It looks like the apt.postgresql.org repo was recently updated to have PostGIS 2.2 packages. I build a relatively popular Docker image for PostGIS, so this was great to see since it's something users have been asking to have for some time (see https://github.com/appropriate/docker-postgis).

However, it looks like in the process of updating the repo, version 2.1 of the "postgis" package was removed. This means that I can no longer build an image for PostGIS 2.1 on older Postgres versions that includes the PostGIS userland binaries.

I understand the difficulty of providing both a 2.2 package and a 2.1 package in the same repo since there is no version number in the package name (e.g. "postgis-2.1" and "postgis-2.2"), so I'm wondering how much of a loss it is to no longer have the userland binaries. I personally don't use those binaries, so I can't be sure of the impact of simply removing them from the Docker image.

-md

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