[needs-packaging] mod_auth_cas

[Craig]

Can someone please package mod_auth_cas? The package name would be libapache2-mod-auth-cas.

mod_auth_cas is an Apache 2.0/2.2 compliant module that supports the CASv1 and CASv2 protocols.

CAS is a popular centralized authentication provider. We're considering using at the company I work for, and I bet a bunch of other companies (as well as many universities - I know UConn and VA Tech do) use it as well. Here's a link to this module's home: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASC/mod_auth_cas

This seems like the packaging effort would be low - someone has already packaged it for debian: http://michele.pupazzo.org/diary/?p=277

Thank you!

[Fahad Sadah (fahadsadah)]

I'll give it a go!

[Fahad Sadah (fahadsadah)]

It seems like that package is broken.
Oh well, I can always package it from scratch!

[Craig (candrews-integralblue)]

Reported to Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=470365

Also... I'm working on packaging this, but this would be my first package... so I'm not too sure I'll pull it off.

[Michele Baldessari (michele)]

Guys,

what exactly do you feel is broken in the package? Please detail the problems you have it.
I'm using it here on a few Etch servers without any problem and it's lintian and piuparts clean.
I'd be glad to fix up the issues you guys have with it.

Ciao,
Michele

[Craig (candrews-integralblue)]

I just managed to fix it. There was a typo in the debian/auth_cas.load file.

Yours:
LoadModule authcas_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_auth_cas.so

It should be:
LoadModule auth_cas_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_auth_cas.so

That fixes it. Now it just needs to be updated to 1.0.7. That's it!

[Michele Baldessari (michele)]

Hi Craig,

ah ok. I fixed that locally but never updated my old post.
Here's new debs, dsc and diff signed with my key for version 1.0.7 (which got autotooled I see) :

http://michele.pupazzo.org/files/debian/mod-auth-cas/1.0.7/

hth,
Michele

[Craig (candrews-integralblue)]

Michele,

There is a build dependency on apache2-mpm-worker (>= 2.2.3), which I don't believe is necessary. I took it out, and was able to compile and use it fine.

The only other problem I can see is that I think the copyright is wrong. According to the README at https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/cas-clients/mod_auth_cas/tags/mod_auth_cas-1.0.7/README the license is GPLv3+. You seem to have specified a public domain release in the copyright file.

Assuming these 2 issues are fixed soon, what needs to happen to get this in the Ubuntu repository?

[Michele Baldessari (michele)]

Hi Craig,

I fixed these two aspects. New package is uploaded at the usual place. I haven't yet investigated Ubuntu's procedures to
get a package in to the archive. Will do

[Matt (matt-smith-uconn)]

Hello all-
  I am one of the m-a-c developers, and am excited to see the packaging efforts here (and in a few other distros). Please consider joining the cas-dev mailing list for discussion, as I am aware of a number of disjoint efforts towards packaging m-a-c, and I'd like to try to increase collaboration. Further, cas-dev is the current location for discussion of future m-a-c development, which is likely relevant to the package maintainer.

http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/community/lists/

Thanks all,
-Matt

[Craig (candrews-integralblue)]

As we're now in the intrepid cycle, can we get this included?

[Adam Buchbinder (adam-buchbinder)]

If anyone's looking for the packages, it's on mentors.debian.net:

http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=libapache2-mod-auth-cas

I downloaded the source, built and installed it on Intrepid, and it's working fine. I'm not sure what the wait is on getting it included in Debian.

[Michele Baldessari (michele)]

FYI It's been uploaded to the debian archive

[Adam Buchbinder (adam-buchbinder)]

The package is in Karmic; it'll be part of the next release. Marking fix-committed; please mark fix-released with Karmic comes out.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/libapache2-mod-auth-cas