Opened 17 months ago

Closed 17 months ago

Last modified 14 months ago

#5447 closed defect (fixed)

No manual page for /usr/bin/postgis nor /usr/bin/postgis_restore.pl

Reported by: sebastic Owned by: strk
Priority: medium Milestone: PostGIS 3.4.0
Component: build Version: master
Keywords: Cc: sebastic

Description

The utilities are now installed in /usr/bin instead of /usr/lib/postgresql/<version>/bin/.

This triggers a lintian issue for the Debian package build because man pages are not installed for all executables.

Please add manpages for /usr/bin/postgis and /usr/bin/postgis_restore.pl. The latter should also be installed without the language extension.

Change History (15)

comment:1 by sebastic, 17 months ago

Cc: sebastic added

comment:2 by Sandro Santilli <strk@…>, 17 months ago

In 00f6faa/git:

Add manpage for postgis script

References #5447

comment:3 by Sandro Santilli <strk@…>, 17 months ago

In 57c738f8/git:

Rename postgis_restore.pl to postgis_restore

References #5447

comment:4 by strk, 17 months ago

Bas: are you willing to give your view about why dropping the .pl seems important to you ? See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/postgis/postgis/pulls/133#issuecomment-11334

comment:5 by pramsey, 17 months ago

Why not install them in the PgSQL places? They are hardly system utilities.

comment:6 by strk, 17 months ago

On my system I have /usr/bin/pg_restore (which is a perl script). Our postgis_restore is meant to be used in place of pg_restore when the dump contains script-based PostGIS

in reply to:  4 comment:7 by sebastic, 17 months ago

Replying to strk:

Bas: are you willing to give your view about why dropping the .pl seems important to you ?

It triggers script-with-language-extension lintian issues for the Debian package, from the tag description:

When scripts are installed into a directory in the system PATH, the script name should not include an extension such as .sh or .pl that denotes the scripting language currently used to implement it. The implementation language may change; if it does, leaving the name the same would be confusing and changing it would be disruptive.

Please refer to Scripts (Section 10.4) in the Debian Policy Manual for details.

comment:8 by strk, 17 months ago

The debian policy makes sense to me, the only question is: do we need the retain the .pl extension for windows install ? Is that a prerequisite for scripts to work there ?

comment:9 by robe, 17 months ago

@strk yes the .pl extension is needed for windows I think. That said like I said I don't think too many windows usersk now how to use perl commandline scripts or are even able to. So if it's too much trouble to keep it for windows, I'd say you can strip it for the sake of Linux systems where most of these would be used anyway.

comment:10 by robe, 17 months ago

Component: postgisbuild/upgrade/install
Owner: changed from pramsey to strk

comment:11 by robe, 17 months ago

Let me clarify my answer. Windows users can still use it by doing

perl postgis_restore

It's just they'd need to look into the file to know it's a perl script. For those smart enough to know how to use it, it's not a huge issue as long as we note it in the docs and release notes.

Last edited 17 months ago by robe (previous) (diff)

comment:12 by strk, 17 months ago

Ok I'll strip on install, and revise the NEWS entry about the script which at this point seems to be a new thing in 3.4.0 (the whole script, which was previously not even installed)

comment:13 by strk, 17 months ago

Sorry, the "not even installed" note was about postgis, not postgis_restore.pl. I'll strip the .pl from postgis_restore on install

comment:14 by Sandro Santilli <strk@…>, 17 months ago

In d377adf/git:

Install postgis_restore without the .pl suffix

References #5447

comment:15 by Sandro Santilli <strk@…>, 17 months ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

In 45d1967b/git:

Add man page for postgis_restore

Closes #5447

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