Backports and packaging help

[Ferenc Wágner]

Etienne Dysli-Metref <etienne.dysli-metref at switch.ch> writes:

> We at SWITCH provide Shibboleth SP deb packages for our community
> members [1], supporting Debian [old]stable and Ubuntu LTS. Over time,
> our packaging has diverged from Debian's and I think it would be more
> efficient if I help you guys getting the latest SP releases in Debian
> testing and also provide backports for stable and oldstable. How can I
> help? What would be needed in order to include shibboleth-sp2 in Debian
> backports [2]?

Hi Etienne,

I'm already preparing a new shibboleth-sp2 upload fixing the bug which
keeps it out of testing.  If you've got issues with the current
packages, don't hesitate to open bug reports and explain the solutions
employed in your packages.  Once everything is in testing, I'm open to
providing backports as well.  I try to make the unstable uploads
reasonably backport-friendly.  Besides the above, testing is also
greatly appreciated.
-- 
Thanks,
Feri.