Bug#824532: udev: Include udev rules for more U2F devices

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Wed Nov 30 15:57:47 GMT 2016


Am 13.11.2016 um 23:57 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 13.11.2016 um 16:06 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>> Am 13.11.2016 um 07:46 schrieb Simon Josefsson:
>>> Hi. The udev file is needed by all applications using u2f, and not all
>>> uses libu2f-host. For example, chromium needs the udev rule to work. It
>>> just needs to be present on all systems for u2f to work. Alternatively,
>>> every package that wants to talk to a u2f device needs to ship the file
>>> which doesn't scale very well. 
>>
>> Or such applications depend on a libu2f-common package.
>>
> 
> Btw, splitting out the udev rules from the libu2f-host0 library package
> seems like something you should do in any case. Otherwise it makes
> soname bumps needlessly complicated as the two library packages need to
> conflict with each other.

I've talked to Martin Pitt on IRC and we agreed that splitting out the
udev rules is our preferred way to go here.

I've filed #846358 and #846359 for that.

Regards,
Michael
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