Package: openstreetmap-carto-common Version: 5.9.0-2 Followup-For: Bug #1053458
Dear Maintainer, I'd also vote for removing the postinst script from openstreetmap-carto-common. Not just because it currently doesn't work out-of-the-box, but also because it might not actually be that useful anymore. The way I understand it, the get-external-data.py script (or its predecessor) originally downloaded (shape-) files with e.g. coastlines, extracted them and stored them in a 'data' directory where they were referenced from the style. So it made sense to run it after the installation in order to have this data, which is required for rendering, already downloaded and ready. However, for a couple versions of the style now, it doesn't store the files anymore, it imports them into a running PostgreSQL/PostGIS database where the corresponding tables are then used by the style (in order to be able to actually render anything, an OSM extract or planet must be imported into the same database, too). So I guess that this change in behavior is what actually somewhat broke the postinst script - originally, no database access was required, but now it is. Manfred
