[eduVPN-deploy] Debian/Ubuntu Test Packages for eduVPN/Let's Connect! 3.x Server

[François Kooman]

Hi all,

Following the release of testing packages for eduVPN/Let's Connect! 3.x 
server for *Fedora* [1], now we also have them available for Debian 11 
and Ubuntu 22.04. Ubuntu 22.04 will be released today (2022-04-21) by 
Canonical and may have actually already been released when you read this 
message.

In order to install on Debian/Ubuntu, please follow the instructions [2].

NOTE (1): these are *TESTING* packages and may have problems! Please 
test them if you have the opportunity, and report anything that doesn't 
work properly or that is unclear. The documentation [3] is NOT yet fully 
up to date, but will be slowly updated for 3.x. Make sure you are in the 
*v3* branch of the documentation repository.

NOTE (3): I tested this with a clean Debian 11 VM and configured 
Shibboleth for authentication [4]

NOTE (2): we have not decided whether we will support Ubuntu officially 
in eduVPN/Let's Connect! 3.x due to Canonical not officially providing 
security updates for some packages we use. We cannot recommend 
installing software on such a platform. More information will be 
provided in the future regarding this. Perhaps we can support Ubuntu 
officially, but with some restrictions.

NOTE (4): We have a list of current issues that are still open [5].

Let us know if you have any questions!

Regards,
François

[1] 
https://list.surfnet.nl/pipermail/eduvpn-deploy/2021-December/000363.html
[2] https://github.com/eduvpn/documentation/blob/v3/DEPLOY_DEBIAN.md
[3] https://github.com/eduvpn/documentation/tree/v3
[4] https://github.com/eduvpn/documentation/blob/v3/SHIBBOLETH_SP.md
[5] https://todo.sr.ht/~eduvpn/server?search=label%3A%22v3.0%22