On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 07:02:04PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: Antonio Terceiro 2017-03-26 <20170326115924.zykotnwecwpr2...@debian.org> > > I don't exactly get why having a package postgresql-debversion that > > depends on the postgresql-X.Y-debversion corresponding to the current > > X.Y would not work. server and client themselves are already managed > > like this for ages. > > I'd think adding a meta-package to every single PostgreSQL modules > package would be overkill, i.e. double the number of binary packages. > > What do you think about the Provides: idea?
As you said, it has the issue of not helping with upgrades. What if, instead of the versioned packages, you provided unversioned package names, and each package contained one .so for each supported PostgreSQL version? It seems that postgresql-server-dev-all exists for exactly this purpose ...
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