> It seems that xerces-c's memory consumption also leads to stability problems > in shibd. I'm not sure if the Shibboleth SP specific patch will do for all the > others using xerces. At least with the patch in xerces-c, the Shibboleth SP > runs stable and faster. > > It would be nice to have the xerces-c maintainers patch their sources. On the > other hand, if just the Debian package applies the patch, that's not a lot > different to what commercial Linux distributions do.
I'm the xerces maintainer for debian. I haven't looked at the original bug yet, but if there's a patch I can apply, I'm willing to do so. My usual approach is to file with upstream and accept it if they do. Is the xerces-c patch posted to the original bug report? If not, can someone post a bug against the appropriate xerces package in debian with the patch? I have another request to update the xerces27 packages to track more closely to upstream development. I'll check with upstream about it. Xerces 3.0 has been right around the corner for ages, and I don't know when it's actually going to happen. Having the debian xerces27 packages be more up to date than the most recent official stable distribution is probably not such a bad thing at this point. -- Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
