Bug#740603: /etc/shibboleth not created when not using libapache2-mod-shib2
Sam Hartman
hartmans at debian.org
Tue Apr 1 11:30:26 UTC 2014
>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> writes:
Russ> This is what I did for now. I created a libshibsp-plugins
Russ> package and a shibboleth-sp2-utils package and made the
Russ> dependencies from libapache2-mod-shib2 and from -utils to
Russ> -plugins strict (to require exactly the same version).
Russ> I think that will do for now, but it does have some problems.
Russ> For example, if another package wants to use the library and
Russ> the plugins, it would:
why not have libshib-plugins6 even without the soname directory?
You can provide and conflict libshib-plugins.
Yes, you can only have one plugins package installed at a time, but you
don't lose functionality that way.
Russ> However, for the time being, the Apache module and shibd are
Russ> probably the only real users, so in practice this will
Russ> generally work for the time being.
I plan to ITP moonshot-gss-eap within a month or so.
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