Fwiw, I'm not saying packages must not use the postgresql namespace, I'd just leave it to the maintainer to decide.
Martin Pitt <mp...@debian.org> schrieb: Hello Ansgar, Christoph, Christoph Berg [2012-08-01 21:12 +0200]: > The various postgresql-* packages are mostly plugins (PL/something) Right, postgresql-X.Y-foo are server-side plugins which are specific to a major PostgreSQL server version. They need to be versioned just like PostgreSQL itself for upgrades, parallel installability, etc. > which follow the example of postgresql-plperl-x.y (built from PG > core). For real applications like barman, that's not really > necessary. Where "real applications" == client-side PostgreSQL users, i. e. which only use libpq, not build against postgresql-server-dev-X.Y. Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)