Bug#925978: shibboleth-sp2-common: fills up the /var/cache directory with incommon-metadata.xml.XXXX

[Matt Weatherford]

Package: shibboleth-sp2-common
Version: 2.6.0+dfsg1-4+deb9u1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

This continues to happen, but is easy to manually clear up so low priority...  I wanted to report it out of respect for the work you guys do & in hopes its already fixed in the 3.0 release
I hope this isnt my own configuration problem of some kind. User error has Not Been Ruled Out here  ;)

Thank you for supporting the Shibboleth package on Debian !
-Matt 
UW Seattle, WA USA


root at a:/var/cache# du -sh *
4.0K    apparmor
368M    apt
13M     apt-show-versions
8.0K    dbconfig-common
2.9M    man
4.0K    private
664K    samba
529G    shibboleth
4.0K    tcpdf
root at a:/var/cache#


.....
-rw-r--r-- 1 _shibd _shibd 57996190 Jan  4 00:42 InCommon-metadata.xml.183f
-rw-r--r-- 1 _shibd _shibd 57996190 Jan  4 00:36 InCommon-metadata.xml.38a4
-rw-r--r-- 1 _shibd _shibd 57996190 Jan  4 00:29 InCommon-metadata.xml.9cd9
-rw-r--r-- 1 _shibd _shibd 57996190 Jan  4 00:23 InCommon-metadata.xml.1a82
-rw-r--r-- 1 _shibd _shibd 57996190 Jan  4 00:16 InCommon-metadata.xml.12bd
-rw-r--r-- 1 _shibd _shibd 57996190 Jan  4 00:10 InCommon-metadata.xml.e872
-rw-r--r-- 1 _shibd _shibd 57996190 Jan  4 00:03 InCommon-metadata.xml.7823
-rw-r--r-- 1 _shibd _shibd 57996190 Jan  3 23:57 InCommon-metadata.xml.624c
-rw-r--r-- 1 _shibd _shibd 57996190 Jan  3 23:44 InCommon-metadata.xml.2d56
-rw-r--r-- 1 _shibd _shibd 57996190 Jan  3 23:31 InCommon-metadata.xml.4307
-rw-r--r-- 1 _shibd _shibd 57996190 Jan  3 23:17 InCommon-metadata.xml.a8b2
-rw-r--r-- 1 _shibd _shibd 57996190 Jan  3 23:11 InCommon-metadata.xml.6256
....






-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.8
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/shibboleth/attribute-map.xml changed [not included]
/etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml changed [not included]

-- no debconf information