[postgis-devel] Debian packaging and upgrade

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi Bas

On 04/04/19 11:14, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
> 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.

thanks for the reply. couldn't we just avoid the removal of e.g.
postgresql-9.4-postgis-2.1 ?
Regards.
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