[SCM] Debian packaging for the Shibboleth Apache SP branch, debian, updated. upstream/1.3.1.dfsg1-149-gd782b7c

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Thu Jul 3 02:40:31 UTC 2008


The following commit has been merged in the debian branch:
commit d782b7c91c63c8b4925446acac20e4f6a608e65e
Author: Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>
Date:   Wed Jul 2 19:37:39 2008 -0700

    Improve the package descriptions
    
    Update package descriptions based on discussion with upstream and the
    Shibboleth 2.0 packages, and reference the Shibboleth 2.0 Apache
    module in the libapache2-mod-shib description.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a4fd248..0eaf176 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ shibboleth-sp (1.3.1.dfsg1-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Remove old quilt patches to avoid confusing the new dpkg source
     format.  Since switching to Git, they were no longer used.  Thanks,
     Raphael Hertzog.  (Closes: #485039)
+  * Update package descriptions based on discussion with upstream and the
+    Shibboleth 2.0 packages, and reference the Shibboleth 2.0 Apache
+    module in the libapache2-mod-shib description.
   * Rewrite debian/copyright in the new proposed format and include the
     license information for the Sun RPC code also included upstream (but
     not used in the Debian build).
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 0219864..8f9e275 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -18,58 +18,60 @@ Section: libdevel
 Priority: extra
 Architecture: any
 Depends: libshib6 (= ${binary:Version}), libshib-target5 (= ${binary:Version})
-Description: Shibboleth federated authorization system (development)
- Shibboleth provides a federated authorization and attribute exchange
- framework using the OASIS SAML v1.1 protocol.  It provides web-based
- single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries and allows
- sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of
- protected online resources while letting them establish their identities
- with their own local authentication systems.
+Description: Federated web single sign-on system (development)
+ The Shibboleth System is a standards based software package for web
+ single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries.  It supports
+ authorization and attribute exchange using the OASIS SAML 1.1 protocol.
+ Shibboleth allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for
+ individual access of protected online resources while allowing users to
+ establish their identities with their local authentication systems.
  .
  This package contains the Shibboleth development files needed for
- building applications against the Shibboleth libraries.
+ building applications against the Shibboleth 1.x libraries.
 
 Package: libshib6
 Section: libs
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Description: Shibboleth federated authorization system (runtime)
- Shibboleth provides a federated authorization and attribute exchange
- framework using the OASIS SAML v1.1 protocol.  It provides web-based
- single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries and allows
- sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of
- protected online resources while letting them establish their identities
- with their own local authentication systems.
+Description: Federated web single sign-on system (runtime)
+ The Shibboleth System is a standards based software package for web
+ single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries.  It supports
+ authorization and attribute exchange using the OASIS SAML 1.1 protocol.
+ Shibboleth allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for
+ individual access of protected online resources while allowing users to
+ establish their identities with their local authentication systems.
  .
  This package contains the files necessary for running applications that
- use the Shibboleth library.
+ use the Shibboleth 1.x library.
 
 Package: libshib-target5
 Section: libs
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Description: Shibboleth federated authorization system (target runtime)
- Shibboleth provides a federated authorization and attribute exchange
- framework using the OASIS SAML v1.1 protocol.  It provides web-based
- single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries and allows
- sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of
- protected online resources while letting them establish their identities
- with their own local authentication systems.
+Description: Federated web single sign-on system (target runtime)
+ The Shibboleth System is a standards based software package for web
+ single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries.  It supports
+ authorization and attribute exchange using the OASIS SAML 1.1 protocol.
+ Shibboleth allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for
+ individual access of protected online resources while allowing users to
+ establish their identities with their local authentication systems.
  .
  This package contains the files necessary for running applications that
- use the Shibboleth target library.
+ use the Shibboleth 1.x target library.
 
 Package: libapache2-mod-shib
 Section: web
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, apache2.2-common
-Description: Shibboleth federated authorization system (Apache module)
- Shibboleth provides a federated authorization and attribute exchange
- framework using the OASIS SAML v1.1 protocol.  It provides web-based
- single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries and allows
- sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of
- protected online resources while letting them establish their identities
- with their own local authentication systems.
+Description: Federated web single sign-on system (Apache module)
+ The Shibboleth System is a standards based software package for web
+ single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries.  It supports
+ authorization and attribute exchange using the OASIS SAML 1.1 protocol.
+ Shibboleth allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for
+ individual access of protected online resources while allowing users to
+ establish their identities with their local authentication systems.
  .
- This package contains the Apache 2.x Shibboleth module and the daemon
- that it uses to handle sessions and attribute retrieval.
+ This package contains the Shibboleth Apache module for service providers
+ (web servers providing resources protected by Shibboleth) and the
+ supporting shibd daemon.  This is the 1.x version of Shibboleth; see
+ libapache2-mod-shib2 for the 2.0 version.

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Debian packaging for the Shibboleth Apache SP



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