package postgis tags 737497 + patch thanks On 03-Feb-2014, Ben Finney wrote: > Administrating PostGIS requires understanding how it works and what it > does. Please set a “Suggests: postgis-doc” dependency, so that > administrators choosing to install ‘postgis’ will receive the suggestion.
The attached patch addresses this by adding “Suggests: postgis-doc” relationships to two packages. -- \ “I knew it was a shocking thing to say, but … no-one has the | `\ right to spend their life without being offended.” —Philip | _o__) Pullman, 2010-03-28 | Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au>
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 209d7f9..2fc8f3f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+postgis (2.1.1-7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ [ Ben Finney ]
+
+ * Some binary packages require an understanding of the PostGIS system;
+ add a “Suggests: postgis-doc” dependency.
+ (Closes: bug#737497)
+
+ --
+
postgis (2.1.1-6) unstable; urgency=low
* Recommend postgresql-contrib-M.N for the fuzzystrmatch
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index c8a973b..071033c 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-grass/postgis.git
Package: postgis
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Suggests: postgresql-9.3-postgis-2.1
+Suggests:
+ postgresql-9.3-postgis-2.1,
+ postgis-doc
Description: Geographic objects support for PostgreSQL
PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL
object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables"
@@ -106,6 +108,7 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, postgresql-9.3,
postgresql-9.3-postgis-scripts, liblwgeom-2.1.1,
${misc:Depends}
Recommends: postgis, postgresql-contrib-9.3
+Suggests: postgis-doc
Breaks: postgis (<< 1.2.1)
Architecture: any
Description: Geographic objects support for PostgreSQL 9.3
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