Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal opensaml is the OpenSAML 1.x release and is in Debian because it is required for Shibboleth 1.x, for which there is a separate removal request pending. The current release of OpenSAML, OpenSAML 2.x, is in the archive as the opensaml2 source package.
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, as is opensaml. 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. This removal should happen after or at the same time as the removal of shibboleth-sp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
