[Fingerforce-devel] Bug#840778: fprintd: Please announce supported hardware using AppStream

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Sat Nov 11 16:31:47 UTC 2017


[Laurent Bigonville]
> The problem here is that fprintd uses the libfprint library and it's 
> that library which is implementing the real support of the fingerprint 
> readers.
>
> How are you seeing this then? Shouldn't the metadata file be added in 
> the library instead?

The normal use case is 'user insert hardware' and 'something propose
with package to install'.  If the user should be recommended to install
the library instead of fprintd, then the metadata belong to the library.
In this case, I suspect users should be recommended to install fprintd?

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen



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