[Thinkfinger-devel] Ubuntu package

[Lionel Dricot]

Hello,

As a help for people who want to use their fingerprint scanner, I
quickly build an Ubuntu package available here :

http://ploum.fritalk.com/thinkfinger_0.2.2_i386.deb

This packages does *not* ask you for fingerprint and does *not* modify
the pam config. You still have to do that by hand.

But I think it can help some people.

Lionel

[Luca Capello]

Hello!

Lionel, please don't take my post as personal. I'm cc:ing all the
interested people, I'm not sure they're subscribed to the list.

Post by Lionel Dricot
As a help for people who want to use their fingerprint scanner, I
http://ploum.fritalk.com/thinkfinger_0.2.2_i386.deb

FWIW, there's already an ITP opened for Debian at [1] and it should be
possible to adapt the package for Ubuntu with very minor changes. The
Debian package itself, even if not public available yet, is ready:
Joshua and I are performing the last changes and our slowness is
mostly my fault because of my X60 HD failure [2].

I had a quick look at your package content and it is against most of
the Debian policy (IIRC Ubuntu complies to a part of that, too): for
example, the package contains at the same time a library (both runtime
and development files), an executable and the PAM module.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes:
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=409563
[2] http://albatross.madduck.net/pipermail/debian-unizh/2007-February/000842.html

[Lionel Dricot]

Hello Luca,

Thanks for your comment. I'm not an expert at debian packaging and I
understand your point. My package is, as I see it now, only a
temporary help for people who doesn't want to compile.

If Thinkfinger is included in Debian, it might even goes into Ubuntu
without any work needed (with Debian-Ubuntu synchronization). It's
maybe wiser to wait until your finish your good work :-)

As my package is not offical at all, I think it cannot do any harm.
People can install it, use it and upgrade to the official thinkfinger
package when needed (which, for Ubuntu, will probably be Feisty+1,
october 2007). What do you think ?

Is there any help you might need to finish packaging it ?

Anyway, thanks for your email

Lionel, newbie at packaging...

Post by Luca Capello
Hello!
Lionel, please don't take my post as personal. I'm cc:ing all the
interested people, I'm not sure they're subscribed to the list.

Post by Lionel Dricot
As a help for people who want to use their fingerprint scanner, I
http://ploum.fritalk.com/thinkfinger_0.2.2_i386.deb

FWIW, there's already an ITP opened for Debian at [1] and it should be
possible to adapt the package for Ubuntu with very minor changes. The
Joshua and I are performing the last changes and our slowness is
mostly my fault because of my X60 HD failure [2].
I had a quick look at your package content and it is against most of
the Debian policy (IIRC Ubuntu complies to a part of that, too): for
example, the package contains at the same time a library (both runtime
and development files), an executable and the PAM module.
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=409563
[2] http://albatross.madduck.net/pipermail/debian-unizh/2007-February/000842.html