On 12-13 17:59, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 02:12:22AM +0100, Witold Baryluk wrote: > > Package: postgresql-8.4-postgis > > Severity: normal > > > > I can confirm this. > > > > I had both 9.0 and 8.4 of postgresql installed. > > And today i decided to remove 8.4 > > > > sredniczarny:/home/baryluk# ls -l /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/ > > razem 532 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 542620 2010-05-24 postgis-1.5.so > > sredniczarny:/home/baryluk# > > > > > > As principle it should be removed on purge only, else > it would prevent migrating script to work on pre-existent > DBs. Honestly, I'm more inclined to avoid removing at all: > it something the administrator could always do explicitly > and it is more safe if one issued a purge by error.
As You can see I used --purge option in my bug report (and for real of course). I understand somehow safety reasons, but it is just a strange and somehow inconsistent behvaiour. Thanks. -- Witold Baryluk
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