Logrotate uninstalls postgresql 9.3

Bug #1235646 reported by Enrico Detoma
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logrotate (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Logrotate uninstalls postgresql 9.3 (installed from apt.postgresql.org).
Please find the report below.
It seems to be some incompatibility with the package postgresql-common.

# apt-get install logrotate
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  comerr-dev krb5-multidev libgssrpc4 libkadm5clnt-mit8 libkadm5srv-mit8
  libkdb5-6 libossp-uuid16 libpq-dev libssl-dev libssl-doc
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  postgresql-9.3 postgresql-common postgresql-contrib-9.3
  postgresql-server-dev-9.3
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  logrotate
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 41.7 kB of archives.
After this operation, 24.3 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? ^C

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Enrico Detoma (enrico-detoma) wrote :

This problem was found on Ubuntu 13.10

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in logrotate (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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rahul (rahul100885) wrote :

Facing same issue and it is visa versa.

Apt history log as follows,
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Start-Date: 2013-12-18 13:33:30
Commandline: apt-get install logrotate
Install: logrotate:amd64 (3.8.3-3ubuntu2)
Remove: postgresql-9.3:amd64 (9.3.1-1.pgdg12.4+1), postgresql-contrib-9.3:amd64 (9.3.1-1.pgdg12.4+1), postgresql-common:amd64 (149.pgdg12.4+1)
End-Date: 2013-12-18 13:33:35

Start-Date: 2013-12-18 14:10:56
Commandline: apt-get -y install postgresql-9.3 postgresql-client-9.3 libpq-dev postgresql-contrib-9.3 postgresql-common
Install: postgresql-9.3:amd64 (9.3.1-1.pgdg12.4+1), postgresql-contrib-9.3:amd64 (9.3.1-1.pgdg12.4+1), postgresql-common:amd64 (149.pgdg12.4+1)
Remove: logrotate:amd64 (3.8.3-3ubuntu2)
End-Date: 2013-12-18 14:11:04
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Any quick fix or work around ?

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