Bug#714725: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Bug#714725: Consider setting APT::NeverAutoRemove::postgresql-* in apt.conf

2013-07-09 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Peter Eisentraut 2013-07-03 1372818582.22689.6.ca...@vanquo.pezone.net Marking only the stable version doesn't sound very reliable. If you want to guard the data, you have to do it independent of what the preferred version is. Users of apt.postgresql.org will have even more complex

Bug#714725: Consider setting APT::NeverAutoRemove::postgresql-* in apt.conf

2013-07-02 Thread Christoph Berg
Package: postgresql Version: 9.1+134wheezy3 Severity: wishlist I've twice seen people on #postgresql who were upgrading from squeeze to wheezy and ended up with postgresql-8.4 removed and postgresql-9.1 installed, the existing 8.4 cluster being inaccessible. What happened there is that they have

Bug#714725: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Bug#714725: Consider setting APT::NeverAutoRemove::postgresql-* in apt.conf

2013-07-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 7/2/13 4:26 AM, Christoph Berg wrote: The question now is which package(s) should be marked as NeverAutoRemove. 1) The postgresql-x.y package of the (old)stable release 2) ^postgresql-[0-9]+-[0-9]$ 3) ^postgresql-.* 2) is probably equivalent to 1), as there's only one version in

Bug#714725: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Bug#714725: Consider setting APT::NeverAutoRemove::postgresql-* in apt.conf

2013-07-02 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Peter Eisentraut 2013-07-02 51d2bd16.6020...@debian.org 3) would be needed if we decide that we also need to care about extension modules that should not be removed on dist-upgrade. (Though I tend to think these would usually be manually installed. But we might have the same

Bug#714725: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Bug#714725: Consider setting APT::NeverAutoRemove::postgresql-* in apt.conf

2013-07-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 15:42 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: Re: Peter Eisentraut 2013-07-02 51d2bd16.6020...@debian.org 3) would be needed if we decide that we also need to care about extension modules that should not be removed on dist-upgrade. (Though I tend to think these would usually