Re: PostgreSQL transition ahead

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

Martin Pitt <martin@piware.de> wrote:
> Andreas Metzler [2005-06-07 20:03 +0200]:
>> Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> wrote:
>> [...]
>> > I will upload the new packages to unstable very soon.  This has a
>> > reasonably big impact to all packages that depend/build-depend on
>> > PostgreSQL since the package structure changed a bit:

>> > (1) postgresql-dev was split into libpq-dev (for client apps like
>> >    postfix or pygresql) and postgresql-server-dev-<version> for server
>> >    extensions (like postgresql-plruby and postgresql-ocaml).
>> [...]
>> > (1) makes all packages FTBFS that build-depend on postgresql-dev
>> [...]

>> Hello,
>> If this applies to any package Build-Depending on postgresql-dev (and
>> actually linking against the library) you've missed at least one
>> package - exim4. So if I am right you perhaps should doublecheck your
>> list for completeness. Thanks.

> I already wrote to exim4-daemon-heavy@packages.debian.org.

Hello,
Strange. I've never received that mail and as this address was not listed
in To/Cc of <[🔎] 20050607082200.GJ13572@piware.de> I assumed you had not
sent mail there.

> Besides, there is already a patch for exim4:

> http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/postgresql-transition/exim4.psqlng.diff
[...]

Splendid. Thanks.

               cu andreas
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