Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:50:59 +0100
From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
To: Thomas Martin <tmartincpp@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL on Debian and Ubuntu <pgsql-pkg-debian@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: postgresql-common updated to version 272.pgdg+1
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Re: Thomas Martin
> Hello !
> 
> Concerning this update, we have noticed that postgresql-common-dev has
> been added to the dependencies list of postgresql-common.
> 
> postgresql-common-dev has a dependency to the package make which
> prevents us to update postgresql-common and other packages from the
> pgdg repository on our servers as we forbid the installation of the
> make package.
> 
> This was not the case previously, can you please remove
> postgresql-common-dev from the dependency list of postgresql-common ?

Hi,

the plan was that this is only a temporary dependency until all
extensions have gained a direct test-dependency on
postgresql-common-dev. This would happen naturally with the PG18
release in September/October.

I guess we will just remove the dependency and do that transition now.

Christoph