This one time, at band camp, Ian Zimmerman said: > > Tim> I've been able to get webcalendar (>= 1.0.1) to work with postgres > Tim> 8.x What problems have you been seeing? > > Shouldn't you Recommend postgresql-8.1 as an alternative to postgresql, > which is just a transitional package whose installation will drag in the > obsolete postgresql-7.x?
I don't think so, at any rate. Right now, we have 2 versions of postgresql in the archive (and we're still cleaning out a few things from a third), and we finally got back down to 1 version of mysql-server. Having to support and update all the various versions in a Recommends line is too fragile. It is better to depend on the default, and let the database package maintainers worry about what version that points to. Since it is a Recommends, it doesn't prevent you from installing and running whatever version of postgres you want with it, or not installing postgres locally at all (indeed, this is the point of making it a Recommends instead of a Depends). Am I missing a case where this actually causes a problem for someone? If the answer to the above question is no, I am inclined to close this report. If you can point me to a problem that the Recommends causes that I'm not seeing, we'll of course be happy to work on it. Take care, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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