[postgis-devel] Debian packaging and upgrade

[Bas Couwenberg]

On 2019-04-04 16:09, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>> I consider the symlink hack abhorrent, and personally choose to 
>> reimport my
>> databases on upgrade as long as pg_upgradecluster doesn't work.
> 
> It is technically the exactly same think we obtain
> by dropping the minor number, so if one is abhorrent
> the other is as well...

They are not technically the same, the symlink hack changes paths 
managed by packages.

When removing the packages but still having the symlink present will 
prevent removal of the directory because it won't be empty.

Kind Regards,

Bas