Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] postgresql-* package namespace (was: Re: Bug#683486: ITP: barman -- Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL)

To: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>,debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Cc: pkg-postgresql-public@lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] postgresql-* package namespace (was: Re: Bug#683486: ITP: barman -- Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL)
From: Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de>
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:12:42 +0200
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I usually prefer packages to use the upstream name so they are easy to find (think other distributions).

The various postgresql-* packages are mostly plugins (PL/something) which follow the example of postgresql-plperl-x.y (built from PG core). For real applications like barman, that's not really necessary.

Also, by all means, do not rename existing packages.

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