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From: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 15:20:49 +0800
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Subject: Re: Providing libpq explicitly
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	Talha Bin Rizwan <talha.rizwan@enterprisedb.com>
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On 10 October 2016 at 14:44, Devrim G=C3=BCnd=C3=BCz <devrim@gunduz.org> wr=
ote:
>
> Hi Craig,
>
> Around Sep 2014, I committed a patch of yours that remove explicit
>
> Provides: libpq.so
>
> from the PostgreSQL RPMs, for 9.4 beta2. Do you remember the reason behind
> this?

Honestly, I don't have the foggiest anymore.

> For 3rd party apps that depend on specific version of libpq (I mean like =
"libpq
>>=3D 9.1", not libpq.so.5) are broken now. Would you mind if I put it back=
 to the
> community RPMs?

I'd argue that such packages are simply incorrectly packaged. There's
no such thing as "libpq 9.1".

They should be using rpm's automatic library dependencies to ensure
that dependency, and shouldn't declare an explicit dependency.

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