[Fingerforce-devel] Bug#502138: fprintd: changing back from ITP to RFP

[Luca Capello]

Hi Didier!

On Mon, 14 May 2012 17:42:34 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Le 14.05.2012 15:34, Luca Capello a écrit :
>> However, from my very-limited experience with PAM (especially with
>> libpam-ldapd) the fact that you need 2 separate PAM stacks is against
>> PAM design, which actually enables delegating "authority" to another
>> modules.  This is why the bug above is IMHO a show-stopper: I am fine if
>> pam_fprintd obliges you to use the fingerprint, but this should not be
>> the default.
>
> From my limited tests the other day, what I found most annoying was the
> fact that it needed three wrong swipes to fallback to password. (It does
> fallback if the swipes are "good swipes" but with wrong finger). I just
> proposed a patch to upstream to have both defaults (max tries and
> timeout) configureable:
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49918

That would be better, thank you, but still not suitable for my needs.  I
would be anyway glad to test whatever version you need me to ;-)

>> This is not what I intended, sorry if I was not clear.  The lua-ldap
>> package should clarify things: given that upstream is using Git, there
>> is no point in having the Debian package using 'upstream' to refer to
>> the upstream's 'master' branch.  So in your package 's/master/debian/'
>> and 's/upstream/master/' ;-)
>
> That was mostly muscle-memory: so far I always used the upstream-master
> pair. But I don't really care and can cope with that; I force-pushed a
> change.

I still think that changing the world is possible: if we carry an
upstream Git repository *untouched* (except for tags) with everything
Debian-related in a separate branch, then we can even try to convince
upstream to include our packaging work.  Note, this is different than
having the debian/ folder in the upstream sources.

>> Feel free to ask to be added to the FingerForce Alioth project!
>
> Eh; I'm admin now. Ha ha ha!

Yeah, welcome on board!

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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