On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> [Forwarded to debian-policy for comments]
>
> "Juergen A. Erhard" wrote:
> >Package: python-pygresql
> >Version: 6.5.3-4
> >Severity: normal
> >
> >The upstream version of the pygresql package is 2.4, but the upstream
> >version number on this .deb is 6.5.3. This is wrong.
> >
> >Yes, it's just in the packaging manual... yes, that is not policy... *yet*
> >(and looking at policy and the packaging-manual, I think a lot of the
> latter
> >should actually be in the former).
> >
> >*Please* change this. (Oops, you'll need an epoch... too bad).
>
> It has this number because it comes from the upstream PostgreSQL release; it
> is a binary package from the postgresql source. The upstream PostgreSQL
> maintainers have included it, as they have pgaccess and the odbc code.
>
> It would be equally confusing, therefore, for it not to share the PostgreSQL
> release number.
>
> If I had packaged the PyGreSQL source independently of PostgreSQL, I would
> agree with you.
>
> I don't think it is possible to do what you want except by eliminating this
> package from PostgreSQL and packaging it separately.
It is quite possible though. For example check the slink bash source
package which builds libreadlineg2 ....
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