Plans for Shibboleth SP 2.1 debian packages

[Ferenc Wagner]

Peter Schober <peter.schober at univie.ac.at> writes:

> * Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> [2009-05-06 11:49]:
>
>> You know, maintaining backport branches is extra burden, which I'd
>> like to avoid as long as possible.
>
> I just thought it was a given that getting shib from testing /will/
> break for Etch users, sooner or later,

I don't think it ever was an option.

> i.e. it's not safe to just slap in lines for testing, add pinning,
> install shib and be done with it?

I'd expect dependency handling take good care of this: one really
shouldn't be able to install broken packages.  So it's safe, but it
won't buy you anything, as the upgrade wouldn't be possible without
upgrading libc6 (and other base packages) as well.  That would
obviously destabilize Etch badly, you'd better dist-upgrade instead.

> So what are the current plans -- wait until things break and only
> then produce packages? Or hope that most will be off Etch by the
> time this happens?

This thread was (at least in my mind) about lenny-backports.  Etch
backports is a different issue, and those should be uploaded if
there's significant demand (looks like there is, and they are mostly
ready anyway).  Russ will hopefully speak up if it isn't the case.
-- 
Regards,
Feri.