[Pkg-auth-maintainers] Bug#981804: yubioath-desktop: fails to read yubikey

[Steffen Müller]

Hi.

Thanks for identifying and explaining this bug.

I tried to workaround by installing older packages but failed.

I found out that apt preferences need to be split into two separate files:

	# /etc/apt/preferences.d/yubikey-manager
	# Workaround for #981804, delete when fixed
	Package: python3-ykman python3-yubikey-manager yubikey-manager
	Pin: version 3.*
	Pin-Priority: 999

	# /etc/apt/preferences.d/python3-fido2
	# Workaround for #981804, delete when fixed
	Package: python3-fido2
	Pin: version 0.8.*
	Pin-Priority: 999


I looked at the changelog to find the previous versions.

https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/y/yubikey-manager/testing_changelog
=> 3.1.1-3
https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/p/python-fido2/testing_changelog
=> 0.8.1-2

Installing the packages using these versions fails because they were not 
found:

apt install python3-ykman=3.1.1-3 python3-yubikey-manager=3.1.1-3 
python3-fido2=0.8.1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Version '3.1.1-3' for 'python3-ykman' was not found
E: Version '3.1.1-3' for 'python3-yubikey-manager' was not found
E: Version '0.8.1' for 'python3-fido2' was not found

Can you spot an error here?

My workaround for this was to download the packages from the snaphot 
server and install them using "dpkg -i"

http://snapshot.debian.org/package/yubikey-manager/3.1.1-3/
http://snapshot.debian.org/package/python-fido2/0.8.1-2/

-- 
cheers,
Steffen