On 25/03/13 12:45, Christoph Berg wrote: > Control: retitle -1 pg_upgradecluster should warn if packages are missing > > Re: Daniel Pocock 2013-03-24 <514f583c.9070...@pocock.com.au> >> This is an upgrade problem >> >> Old system has postgresql-8.4 and postgresql-contrib-8.4 on squeeze >> >> It is upgraded to wheezy >> >> postgressql-9.1 was installed, but postgresql-contrib-9.1 doesn't get >> installed by the dist-upgrade > Hi Daniel, > > this is (mostly) a user error. You could have avoided it by having the > "postgresql-contrib" meta package installed.
I'm not sure it is fair to call this user error a) my application needed the crypto library b) I used packages.debian.org to search for packages containing that code c) packages.debian.org showed me the postgresql-contrib-8.4 package d) that is what I installed There may be other valid ways that users have put themselves in a similar position I tried to check popcon stats to see how many users have postgresql-contrib (vs postgresql-contrib-X) but it doesn't appear to report on that package, so it is hard to estimate the potential impact or urgency of this issue. > I'll try to think of a way we can make pg_upgradecluster warn the user > if the set of postgresql-$oldversion packages installed is a superset > of postgresql-$newversion packages. > > Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
