Plans for Shibboleth SP 2.1 debian packages

[Ferenc Wagner]

Patrik Schnellmann <patrik.schnellmann at switch.ch> writes:

> Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> The Shibboleth SP 2.1 stack hit testing, so we could upload to
>> lenny-backports now.  But I wonder if there's any point to it, given
>> that the packages are readily installable from testing just as easily.
>
> I think it makes sense maintaining a backport which just depends on library
> version in lenny. The versions of the libraries in testing and lenny are
> going to diverge within time. And maintaining systems with mixed packages
> from lenny and testing can get very cumbersome.

Of course as soon as library incompatibilities arise, this won't be a
question any more.  According to Russ, this already happened...
Stay tuned.
-- 
Feri.