[Pkg-auth-maintainers] Bug#982348: Bug#981804: yubioath-desktop: fails to read yubikey

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Nicoo,

> Being an alpha version is not a bug.  This was coordinated with upstream,
> who is working to ensure there's a final 4.0 release soon.

You might want to talk with release managers about this, not upstream.

> Yes, there is a UI bug in yubioath-desktop now (extraneous data getting
> displayed), which is getting fixed as we speak.

Git commit released

I tried to use your git repo, it is a mess, complete mess:
- the orig tar ball has no top level directory if you unpack it manually
- you cannot do apt-get source  followed by dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
  -rfakeroot, since source building fails
  You override the auto_clean target and link setup.py from debian/ to .
  That works only once, and the change cannot be represented in the
  source building
  The only way to build such a package is using dpkg-source -b .

You might look into proper packaging practices ...

> Exactly as is currently going on: fixing the one remaining bug.
> Throwing tantrums and opening spurious Severity: serious bugs is only making a
> larger mess.

Again, I don't play ping-pong with severities, but this change has
broken other software in a serious way. You interpretation may vary,
anyway.

> Moving to fido2 0.9 and ykman 4.0a1 was a deliberate move: I discussed with
> upstream and they moved up their release schedule in order to accomodate the
> Debian bullseye release.

Again, you should talk to release managers about this, not upstream.

I could have packaged Plasma 5.20.90 for bullseye ... that is beta and
not alpha ... and still I not even upload it to experimental.

> I'm aware the timing isn't ideal, but it's the best that could be done.

For what? What is the gain?

Anyway, I have fixed it in my personal repo and uploaded fixed ykman
packages to my personal repo.

For me personally I don't care, I can fix these things myself. But I
just hope that bullseye users won't be left out.

Enjoy

Norbert

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