SP release before March 2020?

[Etienne Dysli Metref]

Happy new year everyone! :)

I've heard there might be a SP release coming this year and I wanted to
make you aware of the freeze date for the next Ubuntu LTS (20.04) so
that this new SP version can, if ready, be included in the next Ubuntu
distribution.

According to Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal Fossa"'s release schedule [1], the
feature freeze and Debian import freeze deadlines are on 2020-02-27.
Anything that is in *Debian unstable* can be synced to Ubuntu up to that
date. So, if you're planning a SP release before March 2020, it would be
nice to give us package maintainers a little bit of buffer before
Ubuntu's freeze deadline so that we can prepare and upload the SP
packages to Debian unstable, then request a sync to Ubuntu. Idem for
libraries upon which the SP depends and that you also maintain, like
Xerces-C.

If no SP release is planned that soon, then don't bother, Focal Fossa
will live on with the current SP version (3.0.4). [2]

Cheers,
  Etienne

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseSchedule
[2] https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/focal/shibboleth-sp

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