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Request for review and upload - libfprint and fprintd



Hi,

In a effort to use the ThinkPad X200 fingerprint reader in wheezy, I
backported libfprint and fprintd from testing/unstable for my personnal
use. The packages seem to integrate flawlessly in Wheezy so I'd like to
make my work available for other users through wheezy-backports.

The packages are available at mentors.debian.net:

https://mentors.debian.net/package/libfprint
https://mentors.debian.net/package/fprintd

The ThinkPad X200 (and other laptops using the same fingerprint reader,
AuthenTec AES2550/AES2810) is quite old and those backports would allow
Debian Wheezy users to enjoy passwordless authentication without too
much work; version 0.4.1 of libfprint and fprintd lacks support for this
particular device, whereas it's fully supported in 0.5.1.

These packages are built following the guidelines on Debian Wiki
(https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingFormalBackports), inside a pbuilder
chroot. libfprint didn't need any change, and fprintd needed a minor
change in its dependencies, documented in the changelog. The later needs
the former to build correctly, but that's all.

I'm willing to maintain the backports for the lifetime of Wheezy if needed.

Thanks in advance :)

Regards,

-- 
Raphaël HALIMI


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