[Fingerforce-devel] Bug#460493: ITP: libfprint -- fingerprint library of fprint project

[Emfox Zhou]

Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm directly writing to the Debian FTP Team to solve the issue with
> fprint.  Since the discussion started on debian-devel, I set the R-T and
> M-F-T headers to point to debian-devel and bug #438922 [1].  This
> because the latter is the first ITP for fprint and it's owned by the
> FingerForce team (the primary place for discussion about fingerprint
> software on Debian).

Hello, Let me tell sth about myself. I own a HP compaq nx6325 (notebook),
and it has a aes2501 inside, so when I got this and installed Debian, I
search everywhere to get a driver for the fingerprint scanner, til now
there's many links in my favorites. And when I got to know that fprint
project has release an stable enough driver, and after I tried, it worked
as a charm, so I can hardly wait to package it and upload.

> On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:55:42 +0100, Evgeni Golov wrote:
>> On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:25:04 +0800 Emfox Zhou wrote:
>>
>>>   Description     : fingerprint library of fprint project
>>
>> Just some comments from me:
>> 1. fprint needs imagemagick 6.3.*, which is not yet in Debian
>
> I've never checked that yet, but read below.

My package use libmagick9 in sid now, which use 6.2.4.5, and it works.

>> 2. you probably want to have a look at Debian FingerForce
>> http://wiki.debian.org/FingerForce and have a talk with its members
>
> The situation is even worse:
>
> 1) another ITP (#438922 [1]) already existed for fprint and it was
>    worked on [2].  Debian distribution at which fprint is targeted
>    hasn't been decided yet: I'm in favor of experimental, while other
>    group members are OK with unstable
>
> 2) Kenshi Muto packaged fprint to use the AES2501 fingerprint reader in
>    his new Fujitsu LOOX U50 ultra mobile PC [3]
>
> 3) Emfox Zhou's packages were updated to NEW [4] no more than 6 hours
>    after his ITP (#460493 [5]), effectively giving no time to reply to
>    the ITP with the concerns above
>
> Now, since Emfox asked how to solve this situation [6], I think the best
> thing would be the FTP team to reject Emfox's packages (at the moment of
> writing this mail still in NEW).  Then Emfox can join the Debian
> FingerForce Team and work from there on the fprint packages :-)

Now I have requested to remove my packages in NEW: libfprint and pam-fprint,
and, if all of you, the group members permit, I wish I could join and
continue to work on the package.

>
> Footnotes: 
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=438922
> [2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/fingerforce-devel/2008-January/000056.html
> [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=438922#16
> [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=9;bug=460493
> [5] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460493
> [6] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=438922#25