Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 20:45:54 +0100
From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
To: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr@dalibo.com>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>,
	pgsql-pkg-yum@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: missing perl test modules in postgresqlXX-devel ?
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Re: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais
> I agree they should live in -dev packages. But I should admit I have no idea
> why Debian put them in -client ones. Maybe they have some other constraints
> bound to the postgresql-common debian wrapper?

They used to be in the -server-dev-NN package on Debian, but that had
the problem that running tests on installed extension package needed
more than that package's dependencies (namely this -server-dev-NN
package).

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=944457

The change means you can "apt install postgresql-NN-whatever make",
check out the "whatever" source, cd there, and run "make installcheck"
(or rather "pg_virtualenv make installcheck").

Maybe moving pgxs to the -server package instead of -client would have
been better, but pg_regress is a client program in nature.

Christoph