Hi Russ, On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 16:48:19 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'm preparing a new version of the Shibboleth packages, which as usual > involves three library transitions, although they're all used only by > this package set. libxml-security-c is the lowest-level, but this also > involves libxmltooling (5 -> 6) and libsaml (7 -> 8). > > These versions are required for the new upstream version of the > shibboleth-sp2 source package, which in turn is required for Apache 2.4 > support, so from that you can see why I'm working on this now. :) > > Unfortunately, and this is the part about which I wanted to give you > advance warning, the new versions of these packages add a dependency > on Boost. I'm therefore worried that, as well as being its own > mini-transition, I may end up entangling the Apache transition with the > Boost transition if I just push this stuff to unstable. > That should be fine, since the boost versions are separate source packages, the boost-defaults switch can be delayed until the new one is in testing, so nothing is held back. > I'm staging the packages in experimental and have everything done except > for the actual shibboleth-sp2 package and its Apache module, which I'm > going to work on tomorrow. But I will hold off on uploading this package > set to unstable (that is xml-security-c, xmltooling, opensaml2, and > shibboleth-sp2 as source packages) until I hear from you about how you > want to time this with everything else. > As this is needed for apache 2.4, feel free to go ahead. Note that qpid-cpp seems to build-depend on libxmltooling5 (wtf?) so that will have to be fixed as well. Cheers, Julien
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