Hi, On 2022-01-23 18:11:41 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > It may be that one of the other "scheme" values accurately describes > Debian's actual layout of this package. I didn't check, because the > scheme is defined to be platform-specific.
posix_prefix does, as far as I can see. > Specifying a particular value for it would therefore break other platforms. Hence the suggestion to only force posix_prefix when posix_local (the debian invention) otherwise would get used... > Anyway, trying to figure out whether we're on a Debian package with this > mistake doesn't seem any cleaner than what I proposed. (In particular, > blindly changing to a different scheme without a check to see what's really > in the filesystem seems doomed to failure.) If we make it depend on _get_default_scheme() == 'posix_local' that shouldn't be a risk, because that's the debian addition... Greetings, Andres Freund