Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal shibboleth-sp is the Shibboleth 1.x Apache module. The current upstream recommended release is the 2.x series, which is backward-compatible with Shibboleth 1.x IdPs.
Shibboleth 1.x only gets critical bug fixes and will be going out of support entirely in June of 2010. We therefore will not want to include it in the squeeze release. Since it does not support Xerces-C 3.x and some of its dependency libraries (xml-security-c in particular) are transitioning to Xerces-C 3.x at the request of the Xerces-C maintainer, it's now uninstallable and unbuildable in unstable. Maintaining separate packages of its dependency libraries built against the old Xerces-C isn't worth it when it won't be part of the next stable release anyway. Now seems like a good time to remove it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
