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Re: postgis package features



Hi Markus,

On 05/18/2016 07:59 PM, Markus Wanner wrote:
> I saw the split out of postgis-gui, very nice, thanks.

Glad you like it too. It was requested again recently, so I thought we
should finally do that now. Interestingly these requests never came via
a bugreport.

> I have a somewhat similar change pending and would like to coordinate
> with you, beforehand.
> 
> Short version: I'd like to rename the postgis-scripts binary package to
> postgis-scripts-2.2.
> 
> Explanation: Without the version in the package name, two different
> postgis versions cannot be installed in parallel. This upset some pgapt
> users, because they didn't want to do major version upgrades (2.1 to 2.2
> for example) on live systems.

Christoph mentioned that issue when we met at FOSDEM, I've been
expecting this change since then. :-)

> We still do not plan to maintain multiple postgis versions within pgapt,
> but the proposed renaming would mitigate the issue and allow not just
> existing instances of the extension to continue to work, but even
> 'CREATE EXTENSION'.
> 
> Any concerns or are you okay with the proposed renaming?

I have no issue with the renaming, it's consistent with the library
package. But it's not sufficient to make the packages co-installable. A
few of the files of the extension don't have the version in their name
causing conflicts. Do you already have a solution for this in mind?

Kind Regards,

Bas

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