Shibboleth 2.0 SP packages look ready

[Russ Allbery]

Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> writes:

> Thank you very much for getting this far!  Honestly, I didn't hope you
> could do the upload in the first turn.  Especially not ripe with man
> pages and documentation!

The man pages aren't particularly great, but I figured we could put out
something that we can improve later.  I'm hoping that if we get lucky we
can still make the lenny release, since the library freeze may be somewhat
postponed.

> Btw. git-buildpackage doesn't run lintian for me in pbuilder.  It's
> installed, I can invoke it after pbuilder --login, but no automatic
> joy...  What can be the problem?

I'm not sure that it knows how to invoke lintian in a chroot.  I always
just install the latest version of lintian.  We try pretty hard to keep
lintian working on stable since lintian.debian.org is running stable.
Jeorg uploads backports to backports.org fairly regularly, so if you add
the backports.org sources to your sources.list and then add a pin to your
/etc/apt/preferences:

Package: lintian
Pin: release a=etch-backports
Pin-Priority: 991

you can then upgrade lintian on your stable system.

> Similarly, is there a way to get a prompt in the chroot if the build
> fails?  Inserting those #include <memory> directives one-by-one wasn't
> exactly fun when I had to restart compilation after each failure.

I don't, and yeah, this is incredibly annoying.  I sometimes resort to
just creating a regular sid chroot with debootstrap, copying the source
into it, and then working inside that chroot until I get the compilation
to work.

These days, I deal with this by just running unstable on my personal
desktops, but I understand other people not wanting to do that.  :)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>