[Fingerforce-devel] Bug#683863: libfprint0: udev rules not applied when libfprint0 is installed

[Andrew Pimlott]

Package: libfprint0
Version: 1:0.4.0-4-gdfff16f-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

libfprint0 installs some udev rules to make fingerprint readers
accessible to the plugdev group.  However, since many fingerprint
readers are built-in to computers, they are never plugged in, and thus
the udev rules never fire.  The result is that after installing the
package, the fingerprint reader does not work for non-root users.

libfprint0 should trigger the udev rules when it installs them.  I think
this can be done with the "udevadm trigger" command.  By default, this
will trigger change events for all devices.  I'm not sure whether that
could have undesirable consequences.  You could limit the events to just
fingerprint readers with a series of

    udevadm trigger --attr-match=idVendor=xxxx --attr-match=idProduct=xxxx

Possible dh_installudev should help you with this.

Andrew

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libfprint0 depends on:
ii  libc6               2.13-33
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.32.3-1
ii  libnspr4            2:4.9.1-1
ii  libnspr4-0d         2:4.9.1-1
ii  libnss3             2:3.13.5-1
ii  libnss3-1d          2:3.13.5-1
ii  libusb-1.0-0        2:1.0.11-1
ii  multiarch-support   2.13-33

libfprint0 recommends no packages.

libfprint0 suggests no packages.

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