On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:51, Nicola Larosa wrote: > > Kexi requires the PostgreSQL development files at build time. > > Packages in main cannot "Build-Depend" on packages in universe. > > So, when Kexi moved from Breezy universe to the Dapper main repo > (presumably by being included in KOffice), why was the kexi-postgresql- > driver package left behind?
Two reasons: 1) By moving from universe to main, the required build dependencies for PostgreSQL support became unavailable, and hence Kexi builds without support for PostgreSQL. 2) The kexi-postgresql-driver package was removed in the upstream Debian package. The new Debian maintainer decided it would be better to include all the drivers in the main Kexi package, because the KOffice source package was already producing approximately 30 binary packages. He included the PostgreSQL driver in the kexi package, and added the "Replaces: kexi-postgresql-driver" field to the package, because in Debian, the kexi package *did* replace the kexi-postgresql-driver package. Debian doesn't have the main/universe distinction, so doesn't have this problem. The Replaces: field still makes some sense in Ubuntu. If you install Kexi 1.5 or Kexi 1.6 packages from Ubuntu, then the last released kexi-postgresql-driver package is no use to you - it only works with Kexi 0.9 in Breezy. > > Later versions of Kexi replace the kexi-postgresql-driver package, > > because that package is no longer useful with current versions of Kexi > > What do you mean, "not useful"? The Dapper, Edgy and Feisty packages all > currently still miss the PostgreSQL drivers: "Not useful": I mean that, according to: http://packages.ubuntu.com/kexi-postgresql-driver the last version of the kexi-postgresql-driver is for Kexi 0.9. That package will not work with the version of Kexi included with Dapper, Edgy or Feisty. Those versions of Kexi should refuse to try to load drivers from Kexi 0.9, because if they did, it'd only cause crashes due to binary incompatibility. > the problem still stands. I was defending the comments I wrote on the Kexi wiki about the Ubuntu packages, because Donatas claimed that they were inaccurate. I've spoken to both the Debian packager and the Kubuntu packager for Kexi, and I'm pretty sure they are accurate. Yes, I'm aware the problem still stands. That's why the comments on the wiki are there. Make sense? -- Kexi cannot access PostgreSQL databases anymore https://launchpad.net/bugs/61850 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
