[Fingerforce-devel] ThinkFinger in unstable?

[Luca Capello]

Hello!

Except from the already known errors (missing integration with some
tools due to buggy PAM implementations [1][2][3] and an already known
SSH segfault [4][5]), I'm not aware of any big problem with
thinkfinger in Debian [6].

Now that PAM-0.99 landed in unstable [7], I'm going to rebuilt the
experimental packages with the new PAM.  Thus, I propose to target
unstable instead of experimental, for different reasons.

1) it seems that thinkfinger development has stalled a bit (the last
   SVN commit is 5-month-old)

2) experimental poses a big problem for backports: only packages in
   testing can be in the official backporst.org repository [8], this
   means that all etch users cannot install it (especially packages
   built with newer PAM versions)

3) while I completely agree with Miguel about going for experimental
   because of [9], since the new PAM module is still "vacant", it's
   time to provide a working solution at least for now (and then
   manage the transition)

Comments and/or suggestions?

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.thinkfinger/422
[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.thinkfinger/424
[3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.thinkfinger/430
[4] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.thinkfinger/434
[5] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.thinkfinger/377
[6] julioh on #fingerforce never submitted any bug to the BTS, thus I
    guess his problem was solved
[7] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/08/msg01002.html
[8] http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=contribute#packaging
[9] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/fingerforce-devel/2007-May/000001.html