ShibSP packaging for Ubuntu/Debian

[Vlad Mencl]

Hi Scott,

Thanks a lot for the reply.

And I understand that the project needs to set priorities for time 
allocation.


Thanks for the pointer towards Debian packages.  I knew the packages 
were there, but considered them not-that-much updated.  But I now see 
they're at least getting security fixes backported.

We'll have a look at what options we have with these...

Cheers,
Vlad


On 12/02/22 04:58, Cantor, Scott wrote:
>>     But before doing so, I wanted to check if there are any plans to provide
>>     binaries "directly from the source" - I'd hope the "docker-based local
>>     build system" now in place would be able to handle this as well.
> 
> No plans. The build process is RPM-based (it's scripted obviously but is RPM specific) and I know nothing about APT (don't plan to learn it either, that's not a good use of my time). If somebody joins the project to help who does know APT, then we'll re-evaluate, but given that all this code has to be killed off, it's likely not a good use of time.
> 
> Debian already has official packages, of course, and they're well-supported.
> 
> -- Scott
> 
> 

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