[ please cc both me and the package team ] Hi debian-devel The Moodle package team is currently evaluating how to best upgrade the existing not very well working, and out of date package. Moodle is a webapp that works with both mysql and postgres. We currently have a single package that supports both (badly) and we're talking about migrating to a split package, using dbconfig-common. The problem we've come across is how to handle migrations. If we have a moodle package, that depends on moodle-mysql | moodle-pgsql, then package managers that just install the first dependency, could cause a situation, for example, where someone has configured their moodle installation to work on postgres, but the upgrade installs moodle-mysql, which is obviously a problem. We could detect this case in preinst, and complain bitterly and refuse to install, but that's going to break upgrades, so is obviously a no-goer. I think the best way to handle this, is stop having a moodle package at all, but instead have a moodle-common package, that depends on either moodle-mysql and moodle-pgsql. These two obviously depend on moodle-common, and conflict with each other, and all three new packages conflict with the old "moodle" package. This, I believe avoids the migration problem, and forces a manual installation. If we ship with a NEWS.Debian (inside moodle-common, I guess), which announces that one must manually install moodle-mysql or moodle-pgsql, is this a good enough way to migrate from a single to a split package without breaking the upgrade? Cheers, Penny -- /* --------------------------------------------------- Penny Leach | http://mjollnir.org | http://she.geek.nz GPG: 8347 00FC B5BF 6CC0 0FC9 AB90 1875 120A A30E C22B --------------------------------------------------- */
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