[Fingerforce-devel] Bug#904791: fprintd: Please switch upstream and follow latest fprintd release (0.8.2)

[Boyuan Yang]

Source: fprintd
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-CC: dererk at debian.org odyx at debian.org

Dear libfprint maintainers,

I digged a little bit into libfprint maintenance / upstream development and 
found that upstream has released several releases in git repository [1] with 
tags instead of generating source tarball at people.freedesktop.org. As a 
result, I think we should switch upstream and directly package libfprint 0.8.x 
using git tags.

Other distributions, like Arch Linux, openSUSE and Fedora, have packaged 
libfprintd using git repository and provided libfprintd 0.8.x already. I think 
we should ship 0.8.x series and have it tested too before Buster freeze.

Ulises, Didier, do you find it reasonable? I'm willing to provide with more 
helps if needed (since I will be using fingerprint devices extensively in the 
future).

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Regards,
Boyuan Yang

[1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint/refs/
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