shibboleth-resolver update

[Ferenc Wágner]

"Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> writes:

>> Now that moonshot has been removed in Debian I don't see
>> much need for the shibboleth resolver extension.
>> Are there other consumers?
>
> I would hope not. I was going to note that it should be marked
> deprecated anyway, since it's not going to be supported once my
> redesign of the SP is done.

OK, I'll transition the rest then, and we'll eventually remove
shibboleth-resolver from the archive.

> In similar vein, xmltooling, opensaml, and xml-security should also be
> marked deprecated (the latter was retired by Apache).

They have no consumers in Debian besides the SP.  I can also add a
discouraging sentence to their descriptions in the upcoming uploads.

> Personally, I would tell you to deprecate Xerces also, but when I do
> that, certain people yell at me, so I won't. The others are not up for
> debate as they're my code and are being retired.

Which year do you think you'll stop supporting these libraries?  We may
have to consider this for the next Debian release.
-- 
Thanks,
Feri.