Plans for Shibboleth SP 2.1 debian packages

[Patrik Schnellmann]

Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> writes:
> The Shibboleth SP 2.1 stack hit testing, so we could upload to
> lenny-backports now.  But I wonder if there's any point to it, given
> that the packages are readily installable from testing just as easily.
Thank you for that!

I think it makes sense maintaining a backport which just depends on library
version in lenny. The versions of the libraries in testing and lenny are
going to diverge within time. And maintaining systems with mixed packages
from lenny and testing can get very cumbersome.

Best regards,
Patrik

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