[postgis-devel] Debian packaging and upgrade

[Sandro Santilli]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 11:14:20AM +0200, 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.

Are you referring to the name of the .so file here ?
On postgis-users Paolo reported that using the symlink trick
did not work, due to mismatching postgresql server version
expected by the .so file. Was this an error on his side,
symlinking to the wrong .so file ?

--strk;