[Pkg-postgresql-private] replicator packaging

[Joshua D. Drake]

On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 09:56 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello Debian PostgreSQLers,
> 
> The mammoth replicator is available under BSD now:
> 
>   https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/replicator 
> 
> I was asked to package it, but I'm afraid I just don't have enough
> time to get to this. Since I don't use replication myself, I'm not
> sufficiently motivated to do so either, I guess.
> 
> Is anyone interested in replication and would like to package this?
> I'm happy to give guidance and help for adopting the existing -8.3
> packaging and integration into postgresql-common, of course.

As a note this should be a fairly straight forward packaging in that we
are basically postgresql. The one caveat is the latest version (1.8)
does have a secondary program called mcp_server which would have to be a
separate package. It also has a utility called mcp_stat and mcp_ctl. 

Joshua D. Drake


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin
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