[ELGIS] RFC: Move PostGIS client applications into separate package

Peter Hopfgartner peter.hopfgartner at r3-gis.com
Wed Nov 9 03:15:42 EST 2011


On 11/08/2011 05:26 PM, Mathieu Baudier wrote:
>> Attached is a patch, which separates the PostGIS client applications,
>> shp2pgsql and pgsql2shp and shp2pgsql-gtk, from the PostGIS server side.
>> In our scenanrio, the machine, which imports/exports data is not always the
>> machine hosting the database server.
> Shouldn't we have 'postgis' Requires 'postgis-client'?
> People may expect to find the utilities if they installed postgis on a server.
Yes. And the client package should depend on postgresql-lib.

Peter



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