[Pkg-auth-maintainers] getting Yubico packages into Debian

[Simon Josefsson]

Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> writes:

> Hey all,
>
> I've been playing around with my Yubikey NEO and I see that you've packaged up
> a lot of Yubico things that have not been uploaded yet to Debian.  While I'm
> over-extended as a maintainer of packages, I am more than happy to help
> sponsor uploading your existing packages as long as you are willing to be the
> maintainers of the packages.

Hi.  Having another pair of eyes looking at the packages would be great.

> I think I recall one of you saying that you had just become a DD, so I am also
> happy to advise on process or whatever.  For example, the package git repos
> I've looked at all have a nice git-buildpackage format, but they seem to be
> missing the 'pristine-tar' branch with the official release tarballs.
> Importing new releases using git-import-orig makes it easy to have them stuck
> into that branch, then the official tarballs are easily available for anyone
> who wants to build the package from git.

Yep -- we normally always use a pristine-tar branch.

Taking a step back, I'm not sure which Yubico-related packages aren't in
Debian.  Can we make a list?  U2f-pam is one I can recall.  Can anyone
think of more packages?

/Simon

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