[postgis-devel] Debian packaging and upgrade

[Bas Couwenberg]

On 2019-04-04 11:01, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> currently during a dist-upgrade the older postgis package is dropped. 
> As
> a result, the old cluster is still there, but has no postgis, and this
> prevents pg_dump and upgradecluster. Wouldn't it be better to keep the
> old package, like the old postgresql?

We're only maintaining a single postgis version in Debian, so this 
cannot easily be fixed.

Not including the version in the extension will help to use the new 
package with the old database and allow using pg_upgradecluster to 
migrate the PostGIS databases to the new cluster.

Kind Regards,

Bas