[postgis-devel] Packaging 2.1

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 08:09:53AM +0200, Markus Wanner wrote:
> On 08/27/2013 12:58 AM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> > Second, on Linux question: what should we do? We almost need to start fully numbering our postgis packages to make it clear you can have multiple minor versions installed simultaneously: postgis2.0, postgis2.1, etc.
> 
> Just FYI: on Debian and Ubuntu, I created multiple packages out of the
> postgis sources. A 'postgis' one is just the binaries (shp2psql et al,
> which I hope to be somewhat backwards-compatible). The real extension is
> named "postgresql-9.1-postgis-2.0" for example. This allows the
> installation of different postgis extension versions with multiple
> postgres versions.

As usual, Debian packages are the best ones out there.
Keep up the good work !

> > This will make our package names even more awesomely awful, but I don't see a way around it.
> 
> Working properly across OS and/or Postgres migrations is much more
> valuable than beauty of names, IMO.

+1

--strk;