Updating <Rule> in shibboleth2.xml (was: Shibboleth 2.x packages updated in unstable)

[Scott Cantor]

Peter Schober wrote on 2009-09-16:
> * Scott Cantor <cantor.2 at osu.edu> [2009-09-15 22:37]:
>>> I suppose if people never changed the defaults, we could do
>>> something simpler.
>> 
>> No, they don't, but guaranteeing that isn't so easy.
> 
> Wouldn't conditionally applying a patch[1] in the postinst phase be
> sufficient? Something along the lines of:

Probably so, but that's pretty much my definition of "not easy". Coming up
with that would have taken me multiple days of work. I don't do much shell
scripting or know Perl at all, and don't tend towards thinking of them as a
solution for things.

-- Scott