[pkg-opensc-maint] OpenSC regression affecting OpenPGP cards and how to handle in Bookworm

[John Scott]

Hello,

I ran into an OpenSC regresion introduced in 0.23.0 that affects my usage of my Gnuk OpenPGP card ("Nitrokey Start"), and I identified that the below patch fixed it for me and applies cleanly:
https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/OpenSC/OpenSC/pull/2753.patch

How can we fix this in Bookworm? The change is extremely small, tested by me, and well-documented by code comments. Can we squeeze it into the Bookworm release? If you think this is sensible, and if you'd be willing to grant me (jscott) Salsa access, I can take care of preparing the upload and requesting the unblock if you'd like.

If it's too late for Debian 12.0, maybe we can fix this in a point release? I very much hope we can at least do that, but if we can't, I suppose I could arrange for a backport.

Note that I haven't filed this in the Debian BTS yet, but that's probably a prerequesite to requesting an unblock.

Thanks for your consideration.
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